As far as yours truly can tell, the student worker strike scheduled to start today will be going ahead. There is a notice on the official UC-Berkeley website dated today indicating that a strike is expected.* I could not find an equivalent notice on the UCLA website. However, a news report from KABC indicates a strike will be starting. There is no hint of some midnight settlement - as sometimes occurs in collective bargaining situations - to avert it:
Thousands of academic workers at University of California campuses could go on strike starting Monday, possibly causing big disruptions for students. About 48,000 union workers are expected to walk off the job at UCLA and nine other UC campuses across the state. They voted to strike after months of failed negotiations with UC administrators. The United Auto Workers union represents several classes of UC employees, including graduate student researchers, student employees, tutors and teaching assistants. Wages are a key issue. Some workers - many of them graduate students - say they spend more than half their monthly pay on rent.
UC officials are in contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers regarding four separate academic bargaining units: postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, academic student employees (teaching assistants/readers/tutors) and graduate student researchers, Ryan King, spokesman for the UC President's Office, told City News Service on Sunday. UAW officials said bargaining teams met late Saturday night and decided to proceed with a strike Monday "unless UC ceases its unlawful conduct in order to reach fair contracts before then.'' ...
Full story at https://abc7.com/uc-strike-university-of-california-uaw-teaching-assistants/12451593/.
===
*https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/11/14/an-update-on-mondays-strike-at-uc-berkeley/.
===
https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/student%20strike%20part%204.mp3
===
UPDATE: UCLA circulated its notice about the strike via email at 7 AM today. See:
No comments:
Post a Comment