Suck it, hippies.
Posted on 02/29/2020 3:04:59 AM PST by C19fan
The University of California, Santa Cruz, issued termination letters on Friday to 54 graduate students who have been waging a months-long strike for a cost-of-living-adjustment amid soaring rents.
The firings came as graduate students at the University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Barbara, began their own cost-of-living strikes in solidarity. One of their demands is that all UC Santa Cruz graduate workers who participated in strike activities be restored to full employment status.
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Suck it, hippies.
So the leftist university imposes a “No Strike” clause and uses It to destroy a student strike. Liberalism for you but not for me.
The way that liberals use the word, “exploitation,” nowhere does it apply more than to the way universities treat grad students, teaching assistants, and part time teachers. But I don’t have much sympathy for the exploited ones either because of their own leftism.
They’re getting 2400 dollars a month stipend and want another 1400 a month. They’re delusional. Is their tuition also paid?
I’m sure tuition is waived; mine was. But I only got $900 a month (back in the 90s, in Illinois.)
I read elsewhere that these graduate students don’t pay tuition and get medical care.
IMHO in Calif on the coasts it boils down to housing. They have got to start building apts buildings 4-5 stories and lots of them. Rents out there are insane, just left San Diego, in Ft Worth (and this is no cow town - there are hip sections of downtown they are way nicer less expensive by a long shot and more fun than Pacific Beach) paying the same as I was in La Jolla 30 years ago. Yea June - Sept is hot but thats summer and what swimming pools are for.
What a bunch of slugs...
They got a real life lesson that actions have consequences didn’t they?
Santa Cruz is a liberal shit hole.
grading responsibilities should be taken away from graduate students and given to the professors. There could very easily be lawsuits against the university: students who did not receive grades are unable to graduate and may lose out on career opportunities.
Labor laws are stacked against private industry employers but regs regarding student employment completely protect these Educational Institutions.
If they struck at the very beginning of the semester the courses were probably cancelled. If after the semester started, you have a very good point.
When I was a graduate student at UC Davis, some student activitists came around to the lab to try to get student support for unionizing. I told them I was not interested.
A graduate student in the STEM fields gets tuition, student fees, health insurance, and a stipend. These are very competitive slots to get into: the year I was accepted into grad school, they only accepted 8 students out of 623 applicants.
The fact that those grad students decided to strike only shows that they have their priorities completely backwards. Instead of recognizing how privileged they are to even get a slot, they are acting like it is an entitlement and a right. It is neither. Graduate students in other fields, including MD, DVM, etc., must take out large loans to finance school and living expenses.
I have no sympathy for these entitled brats who have no appreciation for the opportunity they were given. Let other, more deserving students, take their place.
2400 in Santa Cruz today would be around $500 in 90s dollars adjusted for cost of living and inflation from Santa Cruz to Il I would bet
I like when people who are on strike get fired. I was always grateful to have a job. Grateful and thankful that somebody hired me. I never asked for a raise or promotion in my life. But they came.......I ended up a Senior VP for capital markets and never asked for a single promotion.
Gratitude. Dennis Prager says it’s the greatest of all human character traits. I think he’s right. And it’s become the rarest. And that is why America is going down the drain in many ways.
Trump .......”you’re fired!”.....I like that.
If everyone wants lower cost college education, start squeezing the universities.
Didn't Santa Cruz make hate illegal?
There is a push to unionize graduate students
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