UCSC's Hapless Attempt to Stop Grad Student Labor Movement

UCSC's Hapless Attempt to Stop Grad Student Labor Movement
(Dan Coyro/Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)

Weeks into a strike over low wages and rent burden, the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) terminated over 50 graduate workers and notified over 70 that they would not receive an appointment for the next semester.

Suffering most under this decision are international and undocumented students whose future residence in the country is now uncertain without a teaching appointment.

UCSC’s response, which prior to the firing of graduate workers included an expanded police presence costing nearly $1,500,000 per week and resulted in the arrest of 17 protesting graduate workers, is unprecedented in the current era of growing labor movements on college campuses around the country. It’s possible that, as the Cost of Living Adjustment strike potentially spreads to other UC campuses, the UCSC response is meant to function as a model for future conflicts.

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