<div dir="ltr">Dear faculty friends & colleagues,<div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-il">Members of AFSCME 3299, which represents service workers at UC/UCR, are participating in an informational picket today at Glasgow residential restaurant (or dining hall) today at 10am-2pm. </span></div><div><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-il">AFSCME</span> <span class="gmail-il">3299</span> shared about this action and their concerns about UC administrators' handling of their contract bargaining so far on their public Instagram account (see links below):<div><br></div><div><b>Link to post about today's action:</b></div><div> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DARMm3ASPxC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/p/DARMm3ASPxC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>More info about members' concerns: </b></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/afscme_3299/">https://www.instagram.com/afscme_3299/</a><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">Just wanted to keep you all in the loop about this in case you hadn't already heard about this and want to support the workers today and/or in possible future actions. </span></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">Feel free to share this information with others you think might be interested.</span></div><div><br></div><div>In solidarity,</div><div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ellen Reese<div>Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (<a href="https://sehe.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">https://sehe.ucr.edu/</a>)</div><div>Chair of Labor Studies (<a href="http://laborstudies.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">laborstudies.ucr.edu</a>)<br></div><div>Faculty Co-Director of the Inland Empire Labor & Community Center (<a href="http://ielcc.ucr.edu" target="_blank">ielcc.ucr.edu</a>)</div><div>UC-Riverside</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Most recent books </b></div><div><div><i>Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation</i> (with Juliann Emmons Allison, UC Press, 2023)</div><div><div><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy</i>, co-edited with Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (Pluto Press, 2020; Winner of UALE's <span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">Best Book Related to Labor Education Award, 2020-2021)</span></div><div><div><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/" target="_blank">https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/</a><b><br></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>