More than 80% of Santa Cruz’s graduate student workers voted against the December 2022 contract that ended a historic six-week UC-wide strike. The deal, which boosts wages and child care subsidies, exacerbated a rift between workers at prestige campuses such as UCLA and those at smaller schools. The union representing UCSC grad student workers says it’s continuing to find new ways to organize and push for better employment contracts to offset the region’s high cost of living.
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Lookout Update: As UC systemwide strike heads into its fourth day, negotiations fall quiet
Dialogue has been scant between University of California negotiators and striking union groups during statewide demonstrations that have been billed as the largest in the history of academic labor.
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UC says strikers’ demand to tie pay to housing costs could have ‘overwhelming’ cost impacts
Tying workers’ pay to their housing costs could have “overwhelming financial impacts” for the University of California, a system provost warned amid a strike that stretched into its third day across the UC’s 10 campuses.
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UC Santa Cruz academic workers hit picket lines as systemwide strike begins
Citing what they call unfair labor practices by the University of California system throughout the bargaining process that have slowed their proposals for better pay and job security, some 48,000 unionized academic employees throughout the UC system — including around 2,000 at UC Santa Cruz — hit the picket lines Monday morning.