University of California labor strike expands with show of support from more unions

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Fong Chuu is a registered nurse who has assisted with countless liver transplants, kidney surgeries and gastric bypasses during 34 years at UCLA.

Working with her are scrub technicians who sterilize equipment, hand medical instruments to the surgeon and dress patient wounds.

They are a team, Chuu says, which is why she walked off her job Tuesday in support of those technicians and other members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299. The 25,000 member AFSCME local, the University of California's largest employee union, launched a three-day strike Monday.

All UC campuses and medical centers were open but operating with limited medical, dining and custodial services.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-labor-strike-expands-20180508-story.html

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