According to Times Higher Education, officials at the University of California (UC) system are considering another strike following the settlement of the largest labor lawsuit in U.S. higher education history.
Nearly 50,000 graduate students working in the UC system demanded higher wages, reportedly going on strike in November 2022 and the labor dispute was resolved in December. according to to the Associated Press. Union leaders are now accusing the Unification Society system of failing to keep promises made in the agreement, including pay raises, and accused union members of vandalizing a building at the University of California, San Diego, according to The Times. It is frustrating that three people have been arrested. report. (Related: Is the University of California System Becoming a Safe Place for Anti-Semitism?)
We don’t stop! Next Wednesday morning, July 19, when I join my colleagues at the University of California Council meeting at the Latter Center at the University of California, San Francisco, we will drop the felony and student conduct charges against workers and complete the contract. We will continue to demand compliance. pic.twitter.com/PGA9caLx9E
— UAW 2865 (@uaw2865) July 12, 2023
“The University of California is trying to avoid following contracts that have been fairly agreed upon,” said Neil Sweeney, a postdoctoral researcher in molecular biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, at a meeting this week, according to The Times.
“They steal wages from the low-paid academic workers who do most of the teaching and research at the University of California and crack down on workers who dare to speak out,” Sweeney said.
Those arrested by the University of California, San Diego police on July 4 are accused of causing more than $12,000 in damage to a marine conservation technology facility on May 30. statement from university.
Hundreds of union members protested in San Diego Central Court and demanded the charges be dropped, according to a union Twitter post.
Hundreds of UAW 2865 and 5810 members from across the state gathered in San Diego Central Court yesterday to demand that UCSD drop multiple felony worker and student conduct charges. It’s time for UC to stop retaliation and fulfill its contract. pic.twitter.com/LlnAF5TYPE
— UAW 2865 (@uaw2865) July 11, 2023
According to The Times, Jessica Ng, a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and one of the alleged perpetrators, was adequately funded for positions that included a summer job. blamed the University of California system for not doing so.
“The Unification Church made it clear that they would rather arrest their workers than honor the contract they signed last year,” Ng said.
A spokeswoman for UC Systems said it was implementing the deal “in good faith,” according to the Times.
UC Systems and the union did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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