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UC President Threatens to Fire Striking UC Santa Cruz Grad Students
University of California President Janet Napolitano has threatened to fire a group of UC Santa Cruz graduate students who have been on strike and withholding students’ grades over better pay, according to a report from KSBW.
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Police Arrest 17 During UC Santa Cruz Grad Student Strike
Police surrounded demonstrators sitting in circles in the intersection with their arms linked and dragged them away one by one. More demonstrators poured into the intersection and took the places of those being arrested in a tense standoff between hundreds of demonstrators and dozens of police, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.
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UC Santa Cruz Teaching Assistants Go on Strike Over Pay
University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students started a strike Monday to demand higher wages to keep up with living costs in an area that has recently seen housing costs skyrocket.
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UCSC Workers Withholding Final Grades During Strike
After demanding a cost of living increase from the University of
California at Santa Cruz in September, the school’s unionized graduate student workers are now on strike. Marianne Favro reports.