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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Problematic Search

UAW local 2865 - which represents student-workers - posted this undated document yesterday via Twitter.* It appears to be a page of some kind of search warrant, but no other pages were posted and I could find no other information on the union's website. There was brief reference to the search at yesterday's Regents meeting during public comments. 

The text of the tweet reads: 

In case anyone still thought this was about "graffiti"—UC is clearly misusing their private police to target unions. Last night they searched a member’s home for: “Evidence of membership or affiliation with any university organization […] to include any reference to "UAW"

As blog readers will know, the reference to graffiti refers to arrests at UC-San Diego for which, at least so far, no charges have been filed.

There are questions of labor law raised by the search. No other references could be found in a quick search of the student newspaper at UC-SD or elsewhere. However, absent other information, it appears that the university has escalated the original incident.

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*https://twitter.com/uaw2865/status/1681761772448133120.

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