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california state scientists have announced plans for first ever civil servant strike in state history https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article281664388.html quote:Scientists in California state government plan to walk off the job next week in what would be California’s first-ever civil servant strike. After three years of fruitless bargaining, followed by an impasse declaration and mediation talks, the California Association of Professional Scientists will stage a rolling three-day strike Nov. 15-17, the union announced Thursday in an email to members. there is a huge gap between what rank and file are pushing for and what the state has provided, and anecdotally everyone in my office is ready to hit the picket line. a lot of rank and file were vocal about striking when we rejected the state's offer last year, and i'm sure that the labor successes over the last few months have only hardened opinions
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my union (california association of professional scientists) is looking at potentially affiliating with uaw after the state brushed off our three day rolling strike and handed us a marginally worse lbfo (real slap in the face). i'm impressed with what they've accomplished last year with the auto industry, and closer to home with organizing graduate students at public universities. i'm curious if anyone has any experience with a smaller existing union affiliating with a much larger national organization?
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kingcobweb posted:would you be a new local or join an existing one? reading the proposed agreement, we would be a new local
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thanks, the level of autonomy we'd have was my biggest concern. historically we split off from a wider state union because it was felt they were giving our classification specific issues no weight at the bargaining table our leadership has become more militant in the last few years as issues of pay among the rank and file have become real dire, but we're essentially building our union's capacity for member action from scratch after decades of complacency. no meaningful strike fund, no strong media ties outside a few capitol beat reporters, strike actions being organized ad-hoc week of by scratch committees using google docs. it's been real frustrating, and the palpable disdain our liberal state government has for even considering our complaints has me personally feeling wound up as hell
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https://twitter.com/uawregion6/status/1774803110638338114 simultaneously it took the state 3 full months from stating their lbfo to stating that they are almost ready to impose their lbfo. it's impossible for me to tell if they're slow walking everything they do out of spite or incompetence but either it's just getting the rank and file more agitated doesn't help that this is all aligning with the state making a general lurch towards return to office
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