REVERSE THE LAYOFFS! 🔄 Just weeks after 2,100 IT workers across UC joined our union, UCLA Digital & Technology Solutions laid off 27 workers, including 10 of our newly-represented members. UCLA leaders did not provide advance notice or alternatives to layoffs in the ways required by our contract.

STANDING TOGETHER: Healthcare, research, & technical professionals at UCSD Medical Center are standing together to secure differential pay that will increase retention & keep workers safe. When our workplaces have the staff we need to get the job done, our patients, research, & students thrive!

We’re scaling our movement for dignity at work. 🗣️ Go to upte.org/story to add your voice.

GREAT NEWS: After months of pressure, UC Berkeley added our new Floating Holiday—the one we won in our new contract—to CalTime. Tina did some tabling at Berkeley to inform staff about this new benefit. Contact us if you have any questions about how to use this time! upte.org/contact-us

⁉️ Why is UCSF moving key services like bone marrow treatments and interventional radiology from Children’s Hospital Oakland across the bay to San Francisco—creating dangerous barriers for immunocompromised children?

Concerned about ICE? Know your rights. ICE needs a valid judicial warrant to enter non-public areas of our facilities.

We’re strongest when we take action together.

Growing stronger every day! A warm UPTE welcome to Community Health Outreach Professionals, Population Health Specialists, Sustainability Officers, and Trainers. The more of us, the stronger we are. #UnionStrong #UC #HealthcareWorkers #Healthcare

This doesn't seem right 🧐

One year ago, UCSF took over Children’s Hospital Oakland. Since then, life-saving care has kept crossing the bay, pulled from Oakland and shipped to San Francisco. East Bay kids deserve care in their own community. RSVP to rally with us on July 9: upte.org/rsvp #ProtectPatientCare #SafeStaffing

Our union just got bigger! Welcome to UPTE, Application Programmers, Business Systems Analysts, Data Systems Analysts, Database Administrators, Information Systems Analysts, and Instructional Designers! We’re building worker power together. #UnionStrong #UC #TechUnion #TechWorkers

After 900+ petition signatures and mobilizing our community, we won back 17 jobs and added positions at San Diego’s only reproductive mental health clinic. 💪

Hey @uofcalifornia.bsky.social, it’s time to reset your priorities.

✊ Taking back tech from the billionaires Read more here: www.techpolicy.press/we-just-form...

Max Belasco of UPTE UC Los Angeles explains how the University of California's IT workers added 2,100 members to union rolls—and won the right to bargain over how AI gets deployed.

A. Philip Randolph spent his life proving this truth: no one hands workers their rights. We organize, mobilize, and win them together. His legacy lives on in every union member who shows up for their coworkers. That’s the work UPTE continues today. #UnionStrong #LaborHistory #UPTE #WorkersRights

“UCLA was one of the birthplaces of the internet. I seriously doubt that a Deloitte consultant hired by the administration would have approved of a project like the internet.” #TechUnion #Tech #UC

“What I’m hoping is that this victory gives people the sense that tech workers deal with a lot of the same workplace situations as people in other industries, and it is possible to bring people together for a shared vision of how our workplace can be.” #TechUnion #Tech #UC

Dolores Huerta knew the secret: real change doesn’t come from waiting. It comes from showing up and organizing. Don’t wait—get out and build a better world with us. #UnionStrong #UnionPower

What's it going to take, @UCSF?

“This gives us an opportunity to really have a seat at the table, have our own voice and advocate for our careers.” #TechUnion #Tech #UC

🗳️California: Today is the FINAL day to vote in the primary election! Polls close at 8 pm. Drop off your vote-by-mail ballot at any vote center or drop box by 8 pm. Find locations at sos.ca.gov. Make your voice heard! #CAPrimary #CA #UnionStrong

“We can set the right tone not just for our workplace and tech organizations, but also for the millions of Californians who turn to UC every day for critical research, healthcare, and educational opportunities.” #TechUnion #UC #UnionStrong

Here’s what we’ve won by fighting together: ✅ 8%+ raises—largest in UPTE history ✅ $25/hr minimum wage ✅ Healthcare premium caps ✅ Up to 12 months of parental leave ✅ 30-day notice for remote/hybrid changes 25,000+ workers made this happen. #UnionStrong #UC #ResetUCPriorities

One week left until California’s primary is Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Don’t wait. Our endorsed candidates share our values, and many have walked our picket lines. 1/2 #UnionStrong

A century later, the fight for workers to share in what they create is the same fight we wage today. #UnionStrong

“We should be at the table as well.” 2,100 UC tech workers just voted to unionize, forming the largest tech worker union in US history, with AI governance as a core bargaining issue. #TechUnion #UnionStrong

tfw when 2,100 IT workers join the UPTE, creating the largest tech union in the country ✨

We’re proud to endorse Tom Steyer for governor. He’s committed to our mission of public healthcare, education, and research, taxing the wealthy and corporations their fair share, and achieving single-payer healthcare. We look forward to working with him. Vote by June 2!

We are proud to announce our endorsements for the California primary election on Tuesday, June 2, 2026! 🗳️ Our political committee spent months researching, interviewing, & debating to find candidates who share our values—& many have already shown up on our picket lines. Learn more with link in bio.

Thousands of IT and technical professionals are organizing a union to win guaranteed raises, job security, improved benefits, career advancement, and protections for remote work. Join UPTE at upte.org/tech #TechUnion

From Alzheimer’s to climate-resilient crops, science saves lives. UPTE researchers rallied in Sacramento for SB 895, a bipartisan bill creating a $23 billion bond to offset billions in federal research cuts. Learn more at upte.org/save-science #SaveScienceSaveLives

New op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: We’ve raised the alarm for years about UCSF’s approach to our clinics: under-resourced and underpaid. At Ward 86, social workers carry caseloads of 500+. Nearly 6 months after the killing of Alberto Rangel, this cannot continue. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Safe staffing isn't optional. UCLA sits on $2 billion in cash—it can end the staffing & boarding crisis today. Patients deserve better care. Workers deserve safety. We rallied with CIR, CNA & AFSCME at today’s UC Regents meeting to demand change now. #SafeStaffing

Union workers showed up today at the California State Capitol and sent a clear message: we will NOT let science be gutted. The fight for SB 895 is just getting started. Thank you to everyone who rallied with us. #SaveScienceSaveLives

Across California, UPTE members were out in full force yesterday with a clear message: workers over billionaires. #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #UnionStrong

Today and every day belong to the workers. Solidarity, and happy International Workers’ Day! #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #UnionStrong

Same Master of Social Work. Same license. $17.84/hr less just for working UCSF’s community clinics. Half of campus social workers leave in under three years, impacting 1,500+ patients with serious mental illness. UCSF Health must end its two-tier care system and close the pay gap. #ResetUCPriorities

Patients wait almost 5 hours to be seen and discharged in the UCLA emergency department. That’s 48.7% longer than the state average. As of March 2025, UCLA Health held $2 billion in cash. Enough. Rally with us on May 6. RSVP here: upte.org/rsvp #UCLA #ResetUCPriorities

“We hope the city of San Francisco can hold UC — which staffs the hospital — accountable to supply safe staffing levels for clinicians who serve the city’s most vulnerable.”

Thousands of technical professionals are unionizing to win guaranteed raises, job security, better benefits, career growth, & protections for remote work. Tech professionals belong in unions, too. Join UPTE—the tech union at UC. Find out more here: upte.org/tech #TechWorkers #TechUnion

“I have witnessed patients vomiting, bleeding, and even dying in our hallways.” After a horrible patient safety incident occurred at the Parnassus emergency department, we’re calling on UCSF Health to get a grip and ensure safe staffing levels. #PatientCare #UCSF #UCSFHealth #SF

While UCSF Health sits on billions in cash, Parnassus emergency patients wait an average of 4 hrs 42 mins to see a provider & be discharged—nearly 40% longer than the national average. Unacceptable. 💪We’re rallying on April 16 to stop this needless staffing & boarding crisis. Join us: upte.org/rsvp

when we fight back, we win

Social workers like Tia still carry caseloads in the hundreds after our colleague’s killing. We have your back—we’re meeting with Chancellor Hawgood to fight for safe staffing. #UCSF #UC #SF #WorkplaceSafety

More than 100 healthcare workers rallied outside UCI Medical Center today to oppose layoffs of valued colleagues. We demand a UC health system that puts patients over profit. #StopTheLayoffs #UCIHealth

UCI Health is laying off 150 UPTE workers—rehab therapists, chaplains, & quality specialists—when patients need care most. Join us Thurs. 3/26 at noon at UCI Health—Orange to hear from laid-off workers & learn how we’re fighting back. RSVP: upte.org/rsvp #UCI #UCIrvine

After the murder of our colleague, UCSF social workers urgently need safe staffing levels. We spoke up at the UC Board of Regents: why has everyone met with us except for UC’s leadership? Where is the action we need? We must end the recruitment and retention crisis for social workers. #UCSF #UC #1u

No one should fear for their life at work. After a violent incident of this magnitude, UCSF must make meaningful changes, not ask staff to carry on as if nothing happened. We’re calling for action. #UCSF #UC #SF #WorkplaceSafety Learn more: upte.org/demands

UCSF needs to know what frontline social workers have known for too long: UCSF social workers don’t feel safe on the job, and our survey proves it. We demand more protection, and our survey shows why. We won’t stop until every worker is safe. #UCSF #UC #SF #WorkplaceSafety