<div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px">Dear colleagues,</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px">I enjoyed spending the morning with AFSCME 3299 workers this morning on their last day of their 2-day strike, which was scheduled to end at 4pm today. I hope many of you and/or your students had a chance to also connect with striking workers &/or had good discussions about these strikes with other colleagues, students, and/or staff.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px">Today, we had a spirited march through campus at 10am and rallied before and after. Hopefully, the administration will offer AFSCME 3299 & UPTE 9119 a good contract. If not, it is very likely that there will be future strikes and, if and when they occur, they would very much like as many faculty, student, & staff to join them on the picket line as possible.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px">I learned that UPTE-represented workers had a picket line at UCR only on day 1 of their 3-day strike (yesterday). I found this info below regarding their picket locations & times for tomorrow, Friday, 2/28 (the last day of UPTE's 3-day strike). See: </span></font><a href="https://upte.org/ucstrike">https://upte.org/ucstrike</a></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px"><br></span></font></div><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat;font-size:13.5px"><span style="font-weight:700"><em>Please note:</em></span><em> UPTE-represented workers at UC Riverside are </em><span style="font-weight:700"><em>encouraged to join the picket lines at UC Irvine or UC Los Angeles on February 27 & 28, 2025.</em></span><em> For further details, select the “</em><span style="font-weight:700"><em>UC Irvine</em></span><em>” or "</em><span style="font-weight:700"><em>UC Los Angeles</em></span><em>" option.</em></p></div><div><br></div><div>UCLA 2/28 picket info: </div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat;font-size:13.5px"><li style="list-style-type:none"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><span style="font-weight:700">February 28 from 8 am to 1 pm: </span>Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095</p></li></ul>UCI 2/28 picket info: <div><br><div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat;font-size:13.5px"><li style="list-style-type:none"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><span style="font-weight:700">February 28 from 8 am to 1 pm:</span> On the corner of The City Drive & Medical Center Drive, near Pavilion 2, 101 The City Dr S, Orange, CA 92868</p></li></ul><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><br></div><div>For info on the reasons for AFSCME 3299's 2-day strike, see: </div><div><a href="https://afscme3299.org/media/release-university-of-california-service-and-patient-care-workers-to-strike-over-unfair-labor-practices-feb-26th-and-27th/" target="_blank">https://afscme3299.org/media/release-university-of-california-service-and-patient-care-workers-to-strike-over-unfair-labor-practices-feb-26th-and-27th/</a></div><div><br></div></span><div>For background on UPTE 9119's 3-day strike on 2/26-2/28, see: </div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><a href="https://laist.com/news/education/thousands-of-uc-employees-vote-to-strike-amid-federal-funding-threats" target="_blank">https://laist.com/news/education/thousands-of-uc-employees-vote-to-strike-amid-federal-funding-threats</a></div><div><br></div><div>See also: </div><div><a href="https://upte.org/ucstrike">https://upte.org/ucstrike</a></div><div><br></div></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat"><span style="font-size:13.5px">In solidarity,</span></font></div><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></div>