Posted on 05/24/2024 1:05:45 AM PDT by KingofZion
The state labor board late Thursday declined to stop the University of California academic workers’ strike, ruling that a UC complaint did not meet the legal standard required for its intervention.
UC officials had claimed that the walkout was illegal and causing such serious harm that it needed to be stopped. The union representing 48,000 academic workers called the strike over alleged free speech violations related to Israel-Hamas protests and other harms to workers.
The rolling strike was launched Monday at UC Santa Cruz by United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents graduate student teaching assistants, tutors, researchers and other academic workers at the 10 UC campuses and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
On Tuesday, the walkout is scheduled expand to UC Davis and UCLA, where academic workers, their supporters and backers of the Palestinian cause rallied on campus Thursday.
UC officials had asserted that the labor action was illegal because of a no-strike clause in the union contract and had sought a court injunction from the California Public Employment Relations Board to immediately halt the strike.
*** The request for injunctive relief was filed Tuesday afternoon with the California Public Employment Relations Board, which oversees labor-management interaction for public employees in the state.
“Allowing the strike to continue will cause the University and its students irreparable harm — UAW members play a critical role in year-end activities like teaching, grading, and ongoing time-sensitive research,” a university statement released Tuesday said.
The academic workers contend that their free speech rights were violated when system leaders called on police to forcibly remove pro-Palestinian encampments at several campuses and activists at UCLA were not protected from an attack by pro-Israel supporters for hours. Police later moved in to dismantle the UCLA encampment, making about 200 arrests, including some members of the striking union.
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I will not buy a UAW product again until the current leadership is removed.
I read this as the leftist court is allowing the leftist Hama supporters tear down what’s left of the reputation of leftist universities.
Allowing the strike to continue will cause the University and its students irreparable harm, awe poor delusional brain washed Marxist woke zombies
back to bite them in thier arses
Damn! I can decide which side to support. I guess the best I can hope for is that both side stick to their principles and not give in to the other side. /s
The sooner the better. Our progressive Americans don’t realize that our enemies are using American sociopolitical largesse to loot and destroy the fabric of the nation.
The progressives think that the USA can keep giving everything away forever ..
I would assume that a degree from the UC and CSU system will soon be worthless.
The ranking of US colleges is a joke. The University of California, Santa Cruz’s ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #82. This over-ranks a university that is little better than a Junior College.
The commie is strong with this one.
SHUT DOWN EVERY SINGLE UC CAMPUS
SHUT THEM DOWN
STOP FUNDING IDIOTS
When people make fun of Germany in the 30's and ask how did these educated people manage to do this, look in the friggin mirror at the US and other Western countries today.
The world is rallying around Islamic murderers over Jews trying to stop the killing of their people. And then they are calling the Jews the Nazis. No sense of irony whatsoever...
Based on the photo with the article, I don’t think their “free speech” complaints are being brought by the suppressed Israel-backers, but rather by the Soros-funded, pro-Gaza Jew-haters.
It does seem a shame that all those students are going to miss out on their ideological indoctrination, though, doesn’t it?
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