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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To: Managers, Supervisors, Business Officers, and Human Resources Officers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From: Jonathan Connolly, Director of Employee and Labor Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Re: Strike Notices: AFSCME and UPTE - May 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Today we received the attached strike notices from AFSCME and UPTE. Workers from HX, TX, RX, EX, and SX units will strike for one day on Thursday, May 1. Please prepare for work
stoppages and disruptions throughout campus. Please consider how essential services will be delivered in the event of work stoppages and inform us of any impact to services that need to be communicated to campus. We will follow up with a business services
communication in the coming days. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Any questions from employees about negotiations, union activities, and strike related activities should be directed to union representatives. Nothing prevents managers from engaging
in normal conversations with employees concerning subjects unrelated to the strike or union membership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Please document attendance. If any employee does not report to work as assigned, UC will presume — absent prior authorization or medical certification — that their work absence
during a strike period is strike related. Employees’ pay will be docked for absences during the strike unless the employee is on authorized leave or taking vacation approved prior to the strike by department management. Sick leave may not be used during this
period unless employees submit a statement from a physician verifying they were medically unable to work on the days in question. If an employee calls in sick on the day of the strike, the supervisor should inform the employee they will need to provide a doctor's
note confirming illness on that day. Requests for medical documentation cannot be requested after the employee returns to work. (Note: Approved family medical leave and disability accommodation absences remain in effect and additional documentation should
not be requested.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">As is always the case, authorization for an absence from work (e.g., vacation leave or compensatory time) may or may not be granted, depending on operational necessity and without
regard to the employee's reason for the requested leave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">During the strike, please report any violations of the University’s
</span><a href="https://policyking.ucr.edu/home/policy/66cf77528d54f6db8c3cb3d9"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">Time, Place, and Manner policy</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
to </span><a href="mailto:labor.relations@ucr.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">labor.relations@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.
Please do not interfere with the strike, discourage striking or retaliate against striking workers, poll workers on their plans to strike, or surveil strike activities. Employee and Labor Relations will be on location during the strike to respond to any issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Please feel free to reach out to
</span><a href="mailto:labor.relations@ucr.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">labor.relations@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
with any questions or concerns. If short-term contracting out is needed for EX or SX units, please contact ELR analyst Cassandra Serrato at
</span><a href="mailto:Cassandra.Serrato@ucr.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">Cassandra.Serrato@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Jonathan A. Connolly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Director of Employee and Labor Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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