Honestly, I think you are not using the correct pressure. Strike. Go for it. Its not like you can get your income to rise presently, that way. You think you are owed housing to your personal qualification? you think you are owed a food ration of your personal preference? you think you are owed enough spending money to be able to

Sorry pal, no one owes you anything. If there are better qualified, people who teach better at a lower cost, why shouldnt they hire them? If hiring people at their current wage structure creates an inferior insititution let them flush themselves down the toilet.

I hope UC find other people to fill your spaces. Are you talented? Are you providing technical and valuable educational services that are better than what might be available from other people. Awesome! thats your bargaining chip. If that is true then you go get employed by a university that respects your skillset, your temperament, your way with people and teaching.

By moving to those institutions you help those institiutions get better via its quality of staff, and you get a wage that works for the local cost of living (otherwise don't take that job)

That's your power to improve institutions and your personal situation at the same time.

Or just sit in the street with no job, no pay, and complain and in the end receive an unsatisfactory improvement. Your choice.

PS: I spent 8 years in grad school at a major engineering university. I know what you are going through, I just disagree that you are owed anything. Find a place that respects your skills, motivation, dedication to education, and personhood if you feel you are not receiving that there.