Tens of thousands of University of California workers on Wednesday walked off the job for a two-day strike over wages and conditions at their medical facilities and campuses.

Starting just after midnight, about 40,000 service and patient care workers across the system walked out of hospitals and other campuses, including UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Santa Cruz, according to AFSCME Local 3299. There's a plan in place for some workers to return in the event of an emergency.

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