Big expansion of UC strike over pro-Palestinian protests: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara next by Jaweed Kaleem, LATimes, May 31 https://www.aol.com/news/big-expansion-uc-strike-over-164208838.html
University of California workers on strike for the right to protest for Palestine *The President of UAW 4811, Rafael Jaime, speaks about the ongoing strike of University of California student workers* by Natalia Marques, Peoples Dispatch, May 28 https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/05/28/university-of-california-workers-on-strike-for-the-right-to-protest-for-palestine Campus Crackdowns Have Exposed Authoritarian Rot at the Heart of Universities *The greatest threat to democracy on many campuses has turned out to be the schools’ own trustees and administrators.* by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Truthout, May 30, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/campus-crackdowns-have-exposed-authoritarian-rot-at-the-heart-of-universities/ *UCLA administration’s failures warrant union strike authorization* by Rafael Jaime, UCLA Daily Bruin, May 15, 2024 *Rafael Jaime is a graduate student worker in the English department at UCLA and president of UAW 4811, the union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California.* https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/15/op-ed-ucla-administrations-failures-warrant-union-strike-authorization On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > *The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on > strike at UC Santa Cruz* > by Hannah Bowlus, In These Times, May 28, 2024 > > https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-4811-strike-ucla-university-of-california-israel-palestine-students-rafah-gaza > . . . > This strike by Local 4811 is the latest — and one of the most dramatic — > escalations surrounding what Jaime and others have described as a > long-running effort by UC administration to crack down on dissent, > especially surrounding students and academic workers protesting on campuses. > > “While the events of the past few weeks are the most egregious acts by the > university to crack down on dissent, it is part of a long pattern of the > university misusing its power to silence workers and students protesting on > campus,” Jaime said. > # # # > > UC student workers expand strike to two more campuses as they demand > amnesty for protestors > by Mikhail Zinshteyn, Cal Matters, May 28, 2024 > https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/ > > Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the > University of California are on strike, after the union of 48,000 employees > escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis > this morning. > > With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers > picketing since last Monday, today’s job action brings 12,000 more out of > classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission > of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses just > two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals. > > Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, > are striking not over pay and benefits but instead over the UC’s response > to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from > their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their > role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer > “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University > discipline,” the union’s public writings state. > . . . > UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related > to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor > practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to > peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the > First Amendment,” it read. > > “We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly > affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit > chair of the local UCLA union chapter. > > She said the union is taking on a “fight for our ability to be safe on > campus, our ability to have free speech and protest on our campus, but it’s > also a fight that our students led … and we’re just a continuation of that.” > # # # > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30568): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30568 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106380254/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
