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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: UC Researchers and Public Service Workers Unionize
Description: 7,200 UC Research and Public Service Professionals Vote Yes to Form a Union
They are the latest group of professional staff to join the UAW organizing movement
Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA – Today, votes were tallied in a union election for 7,200 Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSPs) across all campuses of the University of California. RPSPs voted overwhelmingly for their union, RPSP-UAW, 3,080 to 612 — 83% voting yes. RPSPs are full-time, professional staff who perform work critical to UC’s academic and research mission—and who have been organizing to gain greater power to sustain and improve that work.
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