Wednesday, February 24, 2010

“Occupation” of 5th floor of Aldrich Hall, UCI, today by “labor organizers”

Evidently, the following email was sent to the “UCI Community” today at 1:30 p.m.

From: On Behalf Of Cathy Lawhon, University Communications
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:30 PM
To: UCI Community :
Subject: Update on Aldrich Hall Activity
A group of students and labor organizers occupied the fifth floor of
Aldrich Hall at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, disrupting business and
presenting a wide-ranging list of demands.

Offices on the fifth floor were locked down and protestors were
informed that they should leave or they would be arrested. By noon,
police arrested 17 protestors inside Aldrich Hall who refused to leave
and cited them with unlawful assembly and refusal to disperse.
Students arrested will also be cited with violations of university
conduct policy.

Demonstrators outside the building blocked several exits impeding the
ability of those inside to leave. Police surrounded the perimeter of
the building and exits were cleared.

By afternoon, staff inside Aldrich Hall were evacuated to ensure their
safety.
• 17 arrested in UCI protest being released (OC Reg)
3:15 p.m. update: While there were several reasons for the protest today at UCI, one of the factors was a break down in negotiations between UC Irvine and the UC system's janitorial union. The union was seeking to "insource" janitorial and maintenance jobs which are contracted out to ABM Industries.

Negotiations broke down because UCI management wanted to impose citizenship checks on the workers, said Jorge Olvera, a groundskeeper at UC San Diego and executive vice president of service for the local chapter of AFSCME, which represents janitorial employees at the UC system.
• Another Day, Another Bunch of UCI Arrests (OC Weekly)

6 comments:

13 Stoploss said...

hopefully have pictures developed this evening...

it was pretty lame though. even less of a turnout and less of a message and solution than the last time...

Roy Bauer said...

Thanks for thinking of us, 13.

13 Stoploss said...

sorry. forgot I used the wrong film--had to have it processed. scans tomorrow night.

the one day I didn't bring my digital with me, something interesting happens...

Roy Bauer said...

No prob.

Anonymous said...

UCI and the Harbor Court are both on Campus Drive in Irvine...coincidence??

Anonymous said...

What a great resource!

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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