After four days of powerful, statewide action – including walking the picket line in the pouring rain and even hail at some Northern California campuses – Teamsters Local 2010 Skilled Trades workers’ strike across 22 California State University (CSU) campuses has delivered a clear message: CSU workers are united and will not accept CSU’s broken promises.

Beginning February 17, 1,100 skilled trades workers — electricians, plumbers, mechanics, painters, locksmiths, and other essential tradespeople — walked off the job across every CSU campus.

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Workers demand CSU cease unfair practices, honor contractual raises

Teamsters Local 2010, representing 1,100 skilled trades workers across the California State University (CSU) system, announced in late December 2025 that members voted by an overwhelming 94 percent to authorize a strike at campuses statewide. The vote follows months of CSU’s commission of numerous unfair labor practices and refusal to pay contractually guaranteed July 2025 raises and salary step increases.

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About 60 Local 2010 members who work at California State University campuses throughout the state descended on the California State Capitol on April 29 to speak with legislators about how state budget cuts could undo the raises and salary steps hard-won through multiple strikes and other major collective actions in 2023.

The legislative lobby day was held jointly with members of California Faculty Association and Academic Professionals of California—collectively representing nearly 25,000 CSU workers.

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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,

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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.

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