Over 120 members of Teamsters Local 2010 came together in Sacramento in May for our 2026 Teamsters Lobby Day! UC, CSU, and LAUSD Teamsters met with more than a dozen legislative offices to advocate for the legal protections and state funding California public education—and public education employees—need to thrive.
Working in teams, our members met with legislative staff throughout the day, urging our representatives to support full funding for the UC and CSU,
Keep readingAfter 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.
Keep readingWorkers 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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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,
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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.
Keep readingMore 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,
Keep readingThanks 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.
Keep readingSkilled 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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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,
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