Workers Join Thousands of Local 2010
Members Receiving Historic Increases This Year
IRVINE,
Calif., July 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Teamsters Local 2010 Skilled Trades members at University of California at Irvine (UCI) have
overwhelmingly ratified a collective bargaining agreement with
significant compensation increases, including 18.5 percent in
average raises over the life of the three-year agreement. The new
contract also contains significant language improvements, including
daily overtime and increases in on-call pay. The members ratified
the agreement by 98 percent with more than 95 percent of members
turning out to vote.
Local 2010 was able to secure the agreement because UCI members
stood together and took effective workplace actions, including
numerous pickets and rallies, to show the employer their
strength.
This win at UCI comes as members of Local 2010 across
California receive historic raises
under Teamsters contracts secured over the past few years. It also
follows on the heels of successful strikes by Skilled Trades
members at California State University,
which resulted in the strongest contract in the bargaining unit's
history.
"We congratulate our Skilled Trades members at UCI for winning
this outstanding contract, and all of our Local 2010 members across
the state for the historic raises we are receiving this year," said
Jason Rabinowitz,
Secretary-Treasurer of Local 2010. "These gains are the direct
result of our hard work building a strong union that has shown that
our members are united and ready to do whatever it takes—up to and
including going on strike—to win the fair contracts we
deserve."
Other members of Local 2010 are also receiving strong raises
this year under robust contracts previously won across the
union.
Members of Local 2010's largest bargaining group, the statewide
UC Clerical and Allied Services (CX) unit of more than 15,000
workers, received an average 6.4 percent raise on July 1, on top of raises received in the prior
three years of the current contract. Teamsters who achieved 20
years of university service received $1,000 longevity payments.
CX Teamsters have received raises more than 2 percent higher
than nonunion UC workers each year, a key factor driving thousands
of formerly nonunion workers to join Local 2010.
The local union has recently won legal cases extending union
rights for thousands of UC workers who had been misclassified as
nonunion. These workers now receive guaranteed raises and all other
rights provided in the union contract.
At California State University
(CSU), Skilled Trades Teamsters will
receive unprecedented wage increases through the return of hard-won
salary steps, reclaimed after a nearly 30-year absence from
contract language. Local 2010 fought a multi-year battle for the
step increases, navigating more than a year of tough negotiations
with CSU, organizing countless member
actions, initiating two separate strikes across the state, and
enduring a subsequent five-day strike.
Effective October 1, CSU will transition workers to a new salary step
structure, which will result in average raises of over 6.5 percent.
Workers with longer service who have fallen behind due to the lack
of step increases will receive up to two additional step increases.
Over 80 percent of members will reach their "target step"—the
appropriate step based on years of service—this year. By the end of
the contract next year, 100 percent of workers will reach their
target, correcting decades of salary inequity at CSU.
Skilled Trades workers represented by Local 2010 at five other
University of California campuses will
also receive 4-5 percent across-the-board raises in July, on top of
the significant raises in prior years of their contracts.
"We are proud of the tremendous raises and improvements we have
won in Teamsters Local 2010, but we are not resting on our
laurels," Rabinowitz said. "Next year, most of our contracts will
be up for negotiation. Our members continue to stand together as a
powerful union, gearing up for the fights ahead to build on what we
have achieved."
Teamsters Local 2010 is an affiliate of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, representing 18,000 workers in
California higher education,
including clerical, administrative, and skilled trades workers
throughout the University of California
and California State University
systems. For more information, visit teamsters2010.org.
Contact:
Aimee
Baror, (213)
220-0538
abaror@teamsters2010.org
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