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Still working without a contract (see WIT for August 22, 2002), 2,300 clerical workers represented by the Coalition of University Employees, and 450 non-tenured lecturers represented by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) struck the five campuses in the University of California system yesterday. The two-day job action will continue today as the workers seek to put pressure on the UC administration, and increase awareness of their low pay, lack of job security, and what they allege are bad faith bargaining practices and contractual violations by management. Shutting down as many as seventy-five percent of classes on at least one campus and bus service as tenured professors, teaching assistants and Teamsters represented bus drivers refused to cross picket lines, the workers are hoping to put an end to the university?s exploitation of the part time status of adjunct faculty and many clericals.