Social Media Statements of Support

This is disgraceful. All workers deserve the right to bargain and strike for better wages and benefits. To Janet Napolitano and @UCSC: stop this outrageous union busting and negotiate in good faith. https://t.co/oaQGTovOdW
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 29, 2020

UCSC grad students are fighting to have their labor rights acknowledged. I strongly urge the president of the UC system to stop threatening them, especially immigrant students, for organizing. I stand with @payusmoreucsc https://t.co/x03yyR70ZT
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2020

The UC grad student strike is going strong and has spread from UCSC to many other campuses.

Time for others to organize solidarity at UC to help them win this strike. https://t.co/dBGTessqh4
— Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) April 5, 2020

There's a graduate student worker strike wave hitting California and spreading.

It's a wildcat strike. Union leadership was afraid 2 strike.

Started at UC Santa Cruz and spread to UC Davis & UC Santa Barbara. Tell folks about it.

A new radical, militant labor mvmnt is coming.
— Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) March 2, 2020

Yo. Grad Student Workers at UC Santa Cruz have been on a full wildcat strike for a week now.

They're trying to spread the strike to other campuses.

They vote tomorrow about whether to stay on strike.

Follow @payusmoreucsc

Give to their strike fundhttps://t.co/zoAT1GHDjI
— Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) February 20, 2020

We stand with the 54 TAs fired for participating in the wild cat strike at UCSC over the last few weeks! This is an attack on public education and undergrads from the West coast to the East know what's up! Strike, strike, strike! #ucscstrike pic.twitter.com/UAHxmoRnak
— Free CUNY! (@cuny_free) March 1, 2020

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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. Now, we are on strike for Divestment, Disclosure, Transitional funding for researchers, & Amnesty for all protestors.