The union strikes at the University of California (UC) in response to how the schools handled the recent pro-Palestinian student protests are expanding to three more campuses in the system.
UAW 4811, the largest union for the UC system, announced on Instagram that UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara would begin their strikes Monday. UC Irvine will be joining on Wednesday.
“We are asking UC to join your academic community on the right side of history,” said Joyce Chan, a neurosciences postdoctoral researcher and the UAW 4811 postdoc recording secretary at UC San Diego. “We have been beaten and arrested for calling for peace and exercising our right to free speech.”
“To stop the spread of this strike, UC needs to make serious progress towards resolving these ULPs [unfair labor practices], beginning with the withdrawal of all criminal and disciplinary charges against our coworkers who have been arrested for protesting…
