(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)“We recognized that this was an area of some concern for our workers,” UC President Janet Napolitano said. On the picket line, UC workers said contractor hiring far exceeds such circumstances. They involve custodians at UC Irvine, security guards at UC Merced, food service workers at UC Davis and UC San Diego, patient care technicians at UCLA Health and UC San Francisco Medical Center, and laundry and mail services at UC Berkeley. “Our latest proposal aligns with the compensation of other UC employees,” it said. Nonetheless, from 2015 to 2018, lawmakers passed four bills seeking to curb UC outsourcing.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 01, 2019 13:52 UTC