SFGATE: UCSF workers walk off job, medical appointments canceled

UCSF workers walk off job, medical appointments canceled
Published on May 07, 2018 at 09:42PM by By Sarah Ravani
Thousands of medical appointments were postponed this week at UCSF’s Mission Bay and Parnassus Avenue campuses as health-care workers across the University of California system walked off the job Monday amid an impasse over wage negotiations. By sunrise, picket lines were in full effect at the Parnassus Avenue medical center, consisting of hundreds from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents about 25,000 medical and service workers systemwide. “Our only option again is to strike,” said Kathryn Lybarger, president of AFSCME Local 3299. “We are holding the line on some of the last middle-class jobs in California.