Workers to UC Davis: ‘Bring Our Work In House!’

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA | Hundreds of University of California students, workers and members of AFSCME Local 3299 rallied in March to demand that some 500 contracted-out food service workers at the UC Davis campus be hired as full-time employees.

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA | Hundreds of University of California students, workers and members of AFSCME Local 3299 rallied in March to demand that some 500 contracted-out food service workers at the UC Davis campus be hired as full-time employees. The workers, employed by Sodexho, receive less pay and fewer benefits than their university-employed counterparts at other UC campuses.

“People know that I work hard at the university,” says Lidia Uribe, a cook with seven years of service. “What they don’t understand is that I don’t work for UC. But I deserve to.”

Local 3299, which has grown by an impressive 2,000 members just since January, represents service and patient care workers throughout the 10 campuses and five medical centers that constitute the statewide UC system.

Photo: Stacey J. Miller/Woodland Daily Democrat