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UC workers and unions warn of strike as staff protest health-plan cost hikes
Summary
Unions and health-care workers told the Board of Regents that proposed increases to premiums, copays and specialty-drug coinsurance will harm patients and workers and said bargaining has been bad-faith, with several unions preparing strikes if the university proceeds.
Dan Russell, president of UPTI and an information-technology worker at UC Berkeley, told the Regents that bargaining with the university has been conducted in bad faith and that unresolved staffing and vacancy data remain withheld: “We requested data on vacancies 18 months ago, and we've received nothing,” he said, adding that members have voted to authorize strikes if talks do not change.
Nurses and other clinical staff echoed those concerns during the public-comment period. Matthew…
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