LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 40,000 healthcare workers at University of California (UC), a top public university system in the United States, kicked off a two-day strike on Wednesday morning.
"Frontline Service and Patient Care UC workers are on strike Nov. 20 and Nov. 21, 2024, to protest UC's bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices," said the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299, a union representing over 35,000 service workers, patient care technical workers, skilled craft workers, and more at UC's 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, numerous clinics, research laboratories, and UC Hastings College of Law.
