UC says the strike is illegal. Workers say they will not back down.
Pro Palestinian protesters rally on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, 2024. , which represents 48,000 workers at ten UC campuses and is coordinating a series of rolling walkouts across the schools. Workers at UC Santa Cruz kicked off the walkouts last week and were joined Tuesday, May 28, by their union siblings at UCLA and UC San Diego. The union says workers at three more campuses could walk out by Friday.
The union says that the strike is in response to “egregious unfair labor practices” committed by the UC System. The allegations include usingand UC San Diego; disciplining employees who participated in protests; and making changes to academic freedom and free speech rights on campuses. “The University remains disappointed that the UAW is engaging in an illegal strike in violation of our contract’s mutually agreed no-strike clauses to advance issues that have no bearing on employment at UC,” UC system officials said in a May 23 statement.
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