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From Santa Cruz Films, Fire Photographer

CHP holds the roadway as hundreds of UC Santa Cruz graduate students and faculty conduct the second day of a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) strike at the UCSC Main Entrance at Bay Street and High Street on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. pic.twitter.com/Tnv9eDHNRm

— Santa Cruz Films (@SantaCruzYT) February 11, 2020

Mission

We are TAs, GSIs, Tutors, Readers, Student Researchers, Fellows, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers at UCSC. We are represented by our union, UAW 4811 (Formerly UAW 2865 and UAW 5810). In 2019/2020, workers at UCSC withheld labor for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), and in 2022, our statewide union struck for 6 weeks over a COLA, arguing for a 54k base wage for all academic workers with the goal of raising the living conditions of academic workers across the state. Then, in 2024, we went on strike for Divestment, Disclosure, Transitional funding for researchers, & Amnesty for all protestors. Now, we’re fighting against the attacks on higher education taking place on a national scale as we build a campaign for a UC that works for all of us.