(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES ÷ With the possibility of more work stoppages in the future, lecturers, clerical employees and nurses will strike this week at the Universitiy of California-Berkeley and the UC Office of the President in Oakland, Calif.

Lecturers and clericals plan to strike in protest of alleged unfair bargaining practices committed by the university, while nurses will strike to show sympathy for the clericals.

Lecturers have engaged in collective bargaining for more than two years, while clericals have negotiated for 15 months. Major issues in both negotiations are pay raises and job security.

Clericals and nurses will not work Monday through Wednesday. Lecturers will only strike on Wednesday, though they will picket on Monday and Tuesday when not in classes. Future strikes on other campuses are still possible.

"We are thinking of (strikes) in the fall," said UC-Los Angeles political science lecturer Rob Hennig.

Clericals at UC San Francisco also voted to strike on Aug. 22, but will not strike next week because state law requires 10 days notice before health care workers can strike.

The UC has responded to the strike notices by filing unfair labor practice complaints against the Coalition of University Employees, which is the clerical union, and the University of California Council of the American Federation of Teachers, and is in the process of filing a complaint against the California Nurses Association. The university said the strikes are illegal because negotiations have not yet reached an impasse.