‘Denied’: UC fails to get a court order to stop academic workers’ strike; union hails decision
The state labor board late Thursday declined to stop the University of California academic workers’ strike, ruling that a UC complaint did not meet the legal standard required for its intervention. UC officials had claimed that the walkout was illegal and causing such serious harm that it needed to be stopped. The union representing 48,000 academic workers called the strike over alleged free ...
by Howard Blume and Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2024
3 minutes
The state labor board late Thursday declined to stop the University of California academic workers’ strike, ruling that a UC complaint did not meet the legal standard required for its intervention.
UC officials had claimed that the walkout was illegal and causing such serious harm that it needed to be stopped. The union representing 48,000 academic workers called the strike over alleged free speech violations related to Israel-Hamas protests and other harms to workers.
The rolling strike was launched Monday at the University of California, Santa Cruz by United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents
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