Today, unions representing tens of thousands of healthcare professional, service and technical employees at the University of California launched a two-day strike. KQED’s Labor Correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero reports.

Today, unions representing tens of thousands of healthcare professional, service and technical employees at the University of California launched a two-day strike. KQED’s Labor Correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero reports.

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UC Healthcare Workers Unions Launch Two-Day Strike

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Over the past year, we&rsquo;ve watched the Trump administration&rsquo;s immigration crackdown unfold violently in places like Minneapolis and Chicago. But even in Northern California, immigration arrests have more than doubled. And one of them, early last year, left a Silicon Valley carpenter gravely disabled. As KQED&rsquo;s Tyche Hendricks reports, his family &ndash; like thousands of others &ndash; is now coping with trauma, upheaval and financial strain.

UC Healthcare Workers Unions Launch Two-Day Strike

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