Felix De La Torre

United Automobile Workers, or UAW, Local 2865 union members and UC administrators convened Tuesday for the first Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB, hearing addressing unfair labor practice charges filed against each other.

Both unions, which represent more than 3,000 Oakland workers cumulatively, according to the press release, alleged that workers have received threats to their jobs because of their support of an alternative to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s budget.

Unions representing employees from across the University of California face delays in the processing of contract disputes, as the state agency responsible for processing them confronts a large backlog of cases.

The Public Employment Relations Board has taken another step in examining an unfair practice charge filed by the UC student-workers union in November, which accuses the UC Berkeley School of Law of mistreating a student worker enrolled in a “self-supporting” program.