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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by nico_h on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:42PM (#22457974)
First of all there is no such thing as a free market.

Universities advertise good careers if you go through them, and I am not sure these numbers are as balanced as they could be.

Second even if it were, there is a terrible imbalance of power between students, which are distributed actors with little to no individual power and little information or experience, vs a much bigger actor with more information and a lot of power in such a relationship.

(From a comment in the other thread about this subject on how this particular market was skewed: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-why-gove... )

And janitor is in all likelihood a decent job with union protection (good for them).

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by tssva on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:32PM (#22460174)
The graduate students had union protection. They chose to disregard the contract the union had negotiated and membership had ratified in 2018 thus throwing away that union protection.
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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by cardiffspaceman on Sunday March 01, 2020 @11:43PM (#22461731)
As far as I can tell according to the article, the union did not support the UCSC strike but it has done some things that support the wildcat strikers, including filing an unfair labor practices suit against the university and openly commenting on the mistreatment of the strikers.
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