UCSC Fires At Least 74 Graduate Student Employees
UC Santa Cruz is facing an uncertain future after the administration fired dozens of striking graduate students last week. Since Friday, more graduate students have received notice that they will not get teaching assistant (TA) positions this spring. UCSC Executive Communications Manager Marc DesJardins confirmed...
Graduate Student Teaching Strike Spreads to UC Santa Barbara
So-called “Doomsday” came and went last Friday as about 85 UC Santa Cruz graduate students voted to continue withholding fall quarter grades after a day that saw about 1,000 students, workers and faculty rally and march through campus. Marchers succeeded in shutting down campus entrances,...
UC Administration Threatens to Fire Striking Graduate Students
By Julian Barragan and Anna Maria Camardo On their sixth day of picketing, UC Santa Cruz graduate students erected a plywood clock counting down to Friday, or, as they are calling it, Doomsday. Last week, the UC administration sent a series of emails calling for...
Graduate Students On Strike
Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz have had enough. After two months on a grading strike with no action beyond dialogue from the university administration, the Graduate Student Association (GSA) voted to initiate a full teaching strike beginning Feb. 10. The picket drew several hundred...