Commentary: As a UC professor, I support the strikers. Our schools shouldn’t have let it come to this
by Joseph Holsworth, Los Angeles Times
Nov 18, 2022
3 minutes
Nearly 48,000 employees across all 10 University of California campuses went on strike this week. These union members — including postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers and graduate students employed as instructors, teaching assistants and tutors, among other roles — are demanding higher pay, child care payments, better working conditions and access to affordable housing.
It’s no mystery why 98% of the United Auto Workers members who cast a vote on the strike supported it. The average UC system grad student worker makes $24,000 annually
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