The 21,000 Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees-CWA (UPTE-CWA) and the University of California (UC) have reached a contract agreement and averted a Strike planned for next week that was to be joined by more than 60,000 supporters from two additional UC Unions - American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC). UPTE represents Research and Technical Professionals across the UC system. The two sides had been bargaining for the last 17 months and had been in mediation for three weeks. Details of the tentative contract, which Union Members still must ratify, have not been made public yet. Prior to the agreement UPTE was seeking significant pay increases, predictable and progressive caps on health care premium increases, and improvements in work-life balance, career progression and job security.

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