UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by toomim on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:57AM (#22462014)

But at UCSC they do this every year.

Here's news on the strike from 2018: https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/05/strike-updates.html

Here's news on the strike from 2017: https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/01/strike-message.html

There's reason to believe that no matter what deal was reached, they would just strike again next year, to try to get more money. How much is enough?

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by wdevanny on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:17AM (#22462105)

I noticed your two links mention different unions striking; some further research might be important here. One of your links is not graduate students striking, but the union for skilled workers at UCSC. The other is a union-sanctioned strike during (I think) a contract negotiation year. Neither is representative of the assertion that graduate students strike every year.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by toomim on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:01AM (#22463077)

Sure, not all strikes are officially in the name of the grad students, but (a) the unions act together, and (b) the grad students specifically have gone on strike 3 times since 2013.

Here's the strike from 2013, with grad students and service workers going on strike together: https://afscme3299.org/media/news/ucsc-service-workers-grad-...

The comments on this UCSC reddit thread discuss how the unions have been coordinating their strikes over the last 3 years: https://old.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/ese6sz/to_everyone_wh...

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