Around 8:20 p.m., students were asked to leave Feast at Rieber as the meal period has officially ended.

Minutes after the dinner meal period began, food truck lines are about 50 to 100 people long each. Dining services on the Hill are still limited on the final day of AFSCME Local 3299’s strike.

(Lilly Wellons/Daily Bruin)

AFSCME Local 3299 employees are picketing on the steps of the Anderson School of Management.

Around 4:45 p.m., picketers chanted, “We’ll be back tomorrow.” However, union spokesperson Todd Stenhouse said the strike will end Thursday evening and no official union picketing is planned for Friday.

Over 100 picketers are now marching outside Anderson Café at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The crowd is chanting, “Whose University? Our University.”

Around 4:20 p.m., AFSCME Local 3299 employees began picketing again in Bruin Plaza. The group is now marching eastward through Wilson Plaza.

An AFSCME Local 3299 organizer told picketers around 4:15 p.m. that the group in Bruin Plaza would begin its “last and most exciting” march.

(Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)

Curtis Boelke, a mental health practitioner at UCLA and a member of AFSCME Local 3299, said he is striking because of safety concerns due to hospital staffing shortages. He attributed his unit’s poor staff retention rates in recent years to UC’s low pay for patient care workers.

“Staff can get hurt – they’re not able to do the job safely. We’re doing two or three jobs at once,” Boelke said. “It affects patient care because when we don’t have enough staff, we’re not able to meet their needs properly in a timely manner.”

At 3:40 p.m., around 100 members of AFSCME Local 3299 rallied in Bruin Plaza, playing drums and chanting, “Who runs UC? We run UC.”

Hundreds of AFSCME Local 3299 workers walked through Kerckhoff Hall and Ackerman Union around 3:30 p.m., chanting “Who’s got the power? We got the power.”

(Alexandra Crosnoe/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Rosalba Montoya, a member of the AFSCME Local 3299 executive board and a medical assistant at UCLA, said that she is striking because she believes the University has broken the law by raising healthcare costs without negotiating with the union.

“We’re living paycheck to paycheck, barely making it with rent and food, and now we have to pay more for our healthcare,” she said. “I have to get my medication from outside of the country, because the price went up a lot.”