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    Chaos over grades, finals and ongoing classes erupts as UC strike continues

    by Teresa Watanabe, Howard Blume and Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times Nov 29, 2022 5 minutes
    Tanya Gupta, a postdoctoral doing research, along with University of California academic workers strike walking the picket line on the Campus of the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA. As the nation’ s largest-ever strike of higher-education academic workers enters its third week Monday, with the crunch time of final...

    LOS ANGELES — UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she’s missing material she’ll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year. UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is falling behind in a class required to graduate because she hasn’t been able to find help during the massive strike of 48,000 University of California academic workers.

    And professor Dylan Rodriguez has stopped teaching his UC Riverside class to support strikers. But his UC Berkeley colleague Kristie Boering has made the opposite decision to serve her students.

    The nation’s largest ever strike of higher-education academic workers — teaching assistants, tutors, graduate student researchers and postdoctoral scholars — entered its third week Monday, triggering growing anxiety and uncertainty over how to handle the most critical work at the end of fall term: final papers, projects and exams. The UC employees, represented by four United

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