UPTE is the exclusive representative for UC's research professionals and technical employees. Join UPTE in the fight to protect and improve the rights of employees. UPTE is committed to building a UC that will provide secure jobs with fair wages and benefits.

UPTE is bargaining with UC for a better contract. Check out the bargaining timeline and the tentataive bargaining schedule.

2008 Bargaining Reports:

Current Issues:

• Overtime Survey
  
  
• Unfair Labor Practice Fact Sheet
  
  
• Contract Action Watch
  
  

Recent Issues:

• UC considering two-tier health coverage, unions say NO to “high-low” (pdf)
  
  
• UPTE gets $ for TX/RX: see list of job titles and raises
  
  
• Defending our Pension and Benefits
  
  
• UC Union Coalition Pension Bargaining Updates
  
  
• 2006-2007 Cost Increase Summary
  

Contract Implementation Committees:

• Equity Committee: UC pay dramatically lags market rates for many of our job titles. We work together to push for additional equity increases above and beyond the raises in our contract.
  
  
• Compensation Evaluation Committee: Evaluate the real cost to the University of the raises we have negotiated in our contract.
  
  
• Hazardous Work and Safety Committee: Establish standards for hazardous work to improve safety and seek supplemental compensation
  
  

New job titles in TX/RX bargaining unit:

• Principal Telescope Technicians: Principle Telescope Technicians have been successfully brought into TX unit and will receive wage increases similar to those already negotiated for other TX employees. They will benefit from the pension protections and negotiations in the TX contract.
  
  
• Clinical Research Coordinators: UPTE-CWA has petitioned to include Clinical Resource Coordinators in the RX unit as they do work essentially the same as Staff Research Associates. UPTE-CWA will push to have them included in all the cost-of-living and step increases already part of the TX/RX contract.