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Regardless of what obstacles are in the way of the labor movement, I can help you tell your story. That’s how I’ve helped University Professional and Technical Employees Communications Workers of America Local 9119 (UPTE CWA 9119) grow its reach and win a massive contract victory at the University of California. This is a major victory for UPTE members across the University of California system and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: delivering significant pay increases over four years, predictable and progressive caps on healthcare premium increases, and improvements in work-life balance, career progression, and job security. The victory would not have been possible without the perseverance and commitment of thousands of UPTE members and more than one-thousand unit and workplace representatives, who helped develop the platform and advocate for patients, research, and students over the course of a two-year fight that included striking for seven days.

Here’s some coverage I helped to secure for UPTE:

• ABC7 Eyewitness News/KGO-TV: Social workers demand UCSF improves safety after worker fatally stabbed by patient

• San Francisco Chronicle: Exclusive: Half of front-line UCSF social workers say they’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed

• The Davis Enterprise: Commentary: UC workers help labor have a moment

• KRON 4: Union rallies for safety plan after social worker killed at SF hospital

• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Anxiety and Exhaustion Stalk Those Spared From Layoffs

• The Orange County Register: 19,600 UC employees reach tentative contract, averting strike

• SFGate: UC workers crash elite dinner, confront UCSF chancellor over layoffs

• The San Francisco Standard: Front-line social workers at UCSF say they are attacked, traumatized, and underpaid

• Davis Vanguard: UC Davis Veterinary Technicians Demand Action Amid Staffing Crisis

• KQED: Tens of Thousands of UC Workers Strike, Disrupting Campuses, Hospitals and Labs

• San Francisco Chronicle: Labor strikes planned at all UC campuses and medical centers, union officials say

• KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco: UC workers, Berkeley teachers among the May Day protests in Bay Area

• CapRadio: Labor workers gather in solidarity for International Workers’ Day

• NBC 7 San Diego: Thousands of University of California workers start multi-day strike

• Los Angeles Times: Thousands of University of California healthcare, research employees vote to authorize strike