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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by refurb on Sunday March 01, 2020 @07:54PM (#22460601)
The back story here is that United Auto Workers (the UC grad students’ union) negotiated an unacceptable contract, and despite many months of pushback from the students, and despite UCSC voting against it, the union ratified it anyway (including a no-strike clause).

Yup, the students joined the union and the union negotiated a contract they didn't like.

Now the students are breaking that contract.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by haditab on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:39AM (#22462979)
Well, the students didn't "join" the union. The union has been in place for many decades (likely since before the students were born).
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