UCSC grad student workers among those voting on strike over Palestine encampment crackdowns

Lookout Santa Cruz ^ | May 13, 2024 | Hillary Ojeda

[artichokegrower]

UC Santa Cruz graduate student workers and their more than 45,000 counterparts at the other eight University of California campuses are voting this week on whether the union should strike in support of free speech and in support of Palestine.

[artichokegrower]

“What’s really amazing is this upsurge of activism that we’re seeing across the country and even internationally,” she said. “[We’re seeing] students standing up, faculty standing up, these encampments in solidarity with Gaza, and Rafah specifically, as Israel’s ground invasion continues. I think what grads on our campus – and now at a statewide level – have been thinking about is a labor strategy that dovetails with that.”

I’m a California tax paying farmer. Get your freaking @sses back to work. It ain’t your university. I don’t want to grow food for you useless turd heads anymore

[BipolarBob]

It’s a shame to see my beloved UCSC go downhill like this. Of course I got my Masters Degree in Wine Connoisseur where I can now pair up what wines with what breakfast cereals. It’s a very useful art. But these protests make me come down with hives. I can’t stand them.

[markman46]

Past time to sue the university

[KingofZion]

This is a UAW affiliate. The UAW president has also made statements supporting Hamas.

Time to boycott cars made by UAW.