Read our full coverage of the UC academic workers’ strike
About 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses walked off the job on Nov. 14, calling for better pay and benefits.
The workers include teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows and perform much of the teaching and research at the state’s premier higher education system.
They are demanding significant pay increases to afford housing in the high-cost areas where most UC campuses are located, child-care subsidies, enhanced healthcare for dependents, longer family leave, public transit passes and lower tuition costs for international scholars.
The University of California and its postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reached a tentative agreement last month that would raise their pay to among the highest in the nation. But the workers did not return to campus as a demonstration of support for the approximately 36,000 graduate student employees who remained on strike.
On Friday, the University of California and the union leadership representing the 36,000 graduate student workers reached a tentative labor agreement. If approved by members, the agreement will resolve what had been the nation’s largest strike of academic workers.
The massive and successful strike by University of California academic workers has helped energize an unprecedented surge of labor organizing among their peers nationwide.
Teaching assistants and other academic workers at UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara rejected the contract, as did graduate student researchers at Santa Cruz and Merced.
University of California graduate student workers ratified a new labor agreement that will boost wages by up to 80%, ending a historic strike that upended fall term finals and grading.
The University of California and union leaders representing 36,000 student academic workers reached a tentative agreement, but a group of opponents is mobilizing a statewide campaign urging a no vote.
After a five-week strike that shut down classes and labs and unleashed grading turmoil, UC and graduate student workers reached a tentative agreement Friday.
A group of demonstrators still on strike delayed and interrupted the University of California Regents meeting Wednesday at UCLA.
The voluntary mediation means a neutral third party will step in to help both sides break through stalled negotiations, especially salary issues.
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In its fourth week, the massive academic workers strike has led to canceled finals, delayed grades and growing angst among students.
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The demand to fund significant salary increases for strikers comes as the state faces a potential $25-billion budget deficit.
The UC strike is calling for better pay and benefits for teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows.
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As 48,000 University of California academic workers push their historic strike into a third week just days before finals, tensions and anxiety are rising. “People are losing their minds,” a UC Santa Barbara professor says.
UC postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reach a tentative deal but won’t return to jobs, showing support to those workers still on strike.
Without teaching assistants, professors cannot give meaningful feedback on end-of-term work. This will snowball into big problems for students.
The strike of 48,000 University of California workers may have long-lasting consequences to the system’s teaching and research excellence, some fear.
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The union said the two sides remained far apart on compensation, a major sticking point, as the work stoppage by 48,000 academic workers went into Day 4.
The standard University of California graduate student worker experience resembles indentured servitude.
Tying workers’ pay to their housing costs could have ‘overwhelming financial impacts,’ for UC. a system provost warns amid strike.
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About 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system remain on strike asking for better pay, childcare support and commuting subsidies.
The UC strike is calling for better pay and benefits for teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows.
Nearly 48,000 University of California graduate students -- the backbone of the esteemed higher education system who research, mentor and teach undergraduates -- are poised to strike.
