Striking AFSCME UC Service Workers Defy Court InjunctionYvonne Martinezbyline‚ Jul. 16‚ 2008“No es justo.” Strikers Victoria and Alicia tell me as I pull out my notebook at the picket line at Bancroft and College. They are two striking CAL housekeepers, who, between them have cleaned the University of California at Berkeley for over twenty years. They joined picket line chants from the sideline on the morning of the first day of a five-day strike. “UC, escucha, escucha, estamos en la lucha.” They were among the hundreds of Asian, African-American and Latino AFSCME 3299 workers who walked off the job through out the State of California UC System in violation of an injunction against their strike that was issued by court order last Friday. |