Teamsters

Following favorable rulings from the state labor board, Teamsters Local 2010 has added nearly 1,000 more workers at the University of California (UC) who were previously misclassified as non-union. In September, more than 670 Financial Services Analysts joined Local 2010’s Clerical and Allied Services CX Unit, and in January 2025, the state Public Employment Relations Board ordered that 320 Financial Analyst 1 and 2 workers be added to the CX bargaining unit.

These new members immediately began to receive all the rights and raises in the current Teamsters contract,

Two-day training prepares member-leaders for upcoming contract campaigns

December 19, 2024

More than 100 Teamsters Local 2010 member-leaders from across the state came together at our Oakland Union hall on Nov. 14 and 15 for our 2024 Leadership Training and Conference. Together, members and staff organized, strategized, and began the planning necessary to ensure our Union keeps winning for workers in 2025!

Contracts representing more than 90% of Teamsters 2010 workers will open for negotiations next year, including our UC CX and CSU Skilled Trades statewide contracts.

Over 400 University of California executive assistants join Local 2010

October 11, 2024

More than 400 workers at the University of California (UC) joined Teamsters Local 2010 in July. These new members are now bargaining for higher pay, reduced benefit costs, overtime pay, job security, and respect in the workplace.

“As a first-time union member, I’m delighted to be part of the Teamsters, one of the strongest labor unions in the world,” said Angela Gross, an Executive Assistant 3 at UC San Francisco. “Becoming a Teamster is a powerful step toward ensuring that the rights of Executive Assistant 3 workers across the UC system are fully respected,

Healthy raises for UC clerical & admin workers, including newly accreted workers

July 5, 2024

Our Teamsters 2010 CX Accretion Bargaining Team after securing our new Tentative Agreement! From left to right, Union Rep Mike Erazo, Member Michelle Belden, Member Patricia Passalacqua, Chief of Staff and Chief Negotiator Melissa Munio, and Member Robert Sandoval.

Thanks to our strong Teamsters Local 2010 contract, all CX Unit clerical and allied service workers at the University of California statewide will receive a 4.2% across-the-board raise plus one salary step, for a total average raise of 6.4% this July! Our history-making 2022 Teamsters contract guarantees that our annual raise will be at least 3% and the “me too” contract language bumps it to the annual percentage amount provided to unrepresented employees, whichever is greater.

CSU Teamsters make history

April 30, 2024

Skilled Trades Teamsters at the California State University system didn’t just win big with our latest 2023-2026 contract, we won historically big.

“When CSU skilled trades workers joined Teamsters 2010, we set out to win back steps after decades of workers being left behind,” said Catherine Cobb, President of Local 2010. “Over five years, we took on the fight through member action, legislation, petitions, rallies and ultimately unprecedented statewide strikes—and we won!”

We staged the first statewide strike in Unit 6 history on Nov.

CSU Teamsters Hold Unprecedented One-Day Statewide Strike!

January 29, 2024

The 1,100 Skilled Trades Teamsters at the California State University system made history on Nov. 14, 2023, with their first system-wide CSU strike. Picket lines started as early as 5:00 AM at 22 of the CSU’s 23 campuses plus the Office of the Chancellor as we protested the CSU’s multiple ongoing Unfair Labor Practices (ULP).

Our ULP strike, sanctioned by our fellow Teamsters and other Union workers, shut down construction sites, turned away deliveries,

1,230 Workers at University of California Join Teamsters 2010

October 18, 2023

About 1,230 workers at the University of California (UC) joined Teamsters Local 2010 this summer. These newest members will now bargain for wage ranges, initial salary step placement, leave accrual conversions, shift differential pay, and title and pay advancement for Level 1 training positions.

“It’s great to be represented again! I feel secure knowing someone is fighting for us to receive better pay and protect our rights,” said Azalia Maldonado, a facilities management specialist at UC Berkeley.

UC members ratify strongest-ever contract

December 29, 2022

UC Santa Cruz members on the picket line.

After almost a year of bargaining, and hundreds of worksite actions across the state involving thousands of workers, Teamsters Local 2010 members in the statewide CX bargaining unit at the University of California (UC) overwhelmingly ratified our strongest-ever collective bargaining agreement. The CX Unit is made up of more than 14,000 clerical workers and administrative professionals at all UC campuses and medical centers across California.

The new contract provides for unprecedented, well-earned economic gains,

UCSF dispatchers fight out-of-unit work assignments—and win!

October 19, 2022

When dispatchers at UC San Francisco Health received a “suggestion” from management that they shadow AFSCME-represented workers around UCSF hospitals, supposedly for professional development reasons, they knew something was wrong. They quickly called their union rep, who immediately got in touch with UCSF management.

While management tried to pretend that the new work being given to Teamsters dispatchers was purely voluntary and for workers’ benefit, our members knew better. We informed UCSF management that this back-door attempt to assign more work to Teamsters from another bargaining unit was completely out of line and AFSCME agreed.

UC Teamsters are speaking out!

June 29, 2022

UC Santa Cruz members picketed on Administrative Professionals Day in April.

Local 2010’s Bargaining Team continues to meet with the University of California to negotiate a successor agreement for the CX Unit, which has been extended by mutual agreement through June 2022. While there are still many member rights articles pending, the union Bargaining Team made a wage proposal to the UC team on May 19.

Jamal Colter, Bargaining Team member from UC San Francisco, addressed the UC Board of Regents about the high cost of living and workers’ salaries not keeping up.