The University of California system – and UC Santa Cruz in particular – is not treating its graduate student workers fairly and is committing illegal, anti-labor actions, writes UCSC graduate student worker and labor union organizer Rebecca Gross. Student workers across the 10 UC campuses are being punished, she writes, for the spring labor and Palestinian solidarity strikes that upended campus life. The student workers say they are seeing their pay docked and that they have received warning notices about their spring strike activities. Gross says UCSC has illegally attempted to fire four graduate student workers because of strike activities. The state Public Employment Relations Board is set to rule on the legality of the strike this fall.
