Student workers leading the UC strike call for amnesty for those who were arrested or suspended during campus protests.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.After University of California students were arrested or suspended for protests, student workers are striking at three campuses. The Office of President says the strike violates the union contract.
Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counter-protesters. “By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights.”last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it’s leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provides better evidence.“failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.
On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions areI learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem solving sessions,” wrote one poster. The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”
“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024 for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice...
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