Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests

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UAW Local 4811, largest union of academic workers, condemns use of ‘violent force’ and says university must ‘negotiate, not escalate’

A California highway patrol officer detains a protester while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on 2 May 2024, in Los Angeles, California.A California highway patrol officer detains a protester while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on 2 May 2024, in Los Angeles, California.system, will hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week in response to how universities have cracked down on students’ Gaza protests.

“This is the defining issue of our generation and its really important for all, not just workers at the University of California but across the entire nation to speak up and to ensure every worker has the right to speak on this issue,” added Jaime. “We believe all workers, all students have a fundamental right to engage in protests and engage in free speech and universities need to respect that right.

“It’s really about the university trying to leverage this fact that as graduate workers we do have student status and kind of using that as a workaround for violating labor law and this has been their playbook on a whole host of issues,” said Michael Ziegler, political director of the Graduate Labor Organization and graduate worker at Brown University.

 

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