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Friday Undergrads4COLA March

February 19, 2020

The doomsday clock is close to midnight. Janet Napolitano has spoken. If wildcat strikers do not submit grades and cease their strike activities by 11:59pm on Friday, February 21, over 200 graduate student workers risk being fired en masse by the UC. 

The time to show up is now. The Undergrads for COLA Doomsday Rally and March is this Friday in the Quarry Plaza at 11am. 

If carried out, the consequences of this mass firing will be severe. For many strikers, it would spell the end of academic careers at UCSC. For the many international grad students on strike, this means de facto deportation from the United States. The sudden absence of hundreds of TAs from campus will drastically limit the ability of academic departments to offer classes, impairing the ability of many to graduate. Undergraduate education, especially in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Arts, is likely to take a historically unprecedented hit. Contrary to the administration’s claims that they have your safety and well-being in mind, they propose sacking hundreds of graduate students—those who most closely mentor and supervise undergraduate academic work conducted at UCSC.

This Friday, we need your solidarity and your collective strength more than ever. Rally with us on Doomsday in the Quarry. March with us to the base of campus, where we will be joined by contingents from other rallies on campus—Faculty for COLA, STEM for COLA, Lecturers for COLA, and the many autonomous groups of students and workers springing up daily.  

Solidarity will ripple across the UC system as the strike spreads. Our rally coincides with rallies and pickets planned at UC Davis, UCLA, UC Riverside, and UC Santa Barbara. 

Beyond the UC, many thousands of workers, students, professors, members of the national media, the City Council of Santa Cruz, and a U.S. presidential candidate have thrown their support behind our movement. Which side will you be on when the clock strikes?

Undergrads for COLA! Solidarity forever!

DOOMSDAY Flyer Feb 21 (PDF)Download

Strike Updates Day 6

Strike Updates, Tuesday, Feb 18, 2020

For the sixth day, hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others rallied at both entrances to campus. For the sixth day, all metro bus service to campus was disrupted by the picket line. In the afternoon, a huge group of STEM graduate students wearing lab coats once again marched to join the picket line, and joined strikers in peacefully shutting down the main entrance to campus, for the sixth consecutive working day. As of today, UCSC has spent approximately $1.8 million on the police presence at the picket line. By the end of this week, the figure will be approximately $2.7 million. Administration has so far offered nothing substantive–not even non-retaliation for those who they are asking to capitulate–and so tomorrow the strike continues!

In response to the cartoonish threats of administration and UCOP to fire hundreds of graduate students for participating in the strike, COLA strikes and actions are planned at every UC campus for this week. Tomorrow UCLA graduates are staging a sickout strike, and UCSB is considering going on a full strike to demand their own COLA. Meanwhile, UCSC undergraduate student government announced that they are introducing resolutions to investigate the offices of UCOP and UCSC administration, and to explore recalling EVC Kletzer for endangering students and negligence in the handling of this crisis. 

Tomorrow the UCSC faculty senate will meet to vote on two resolutions, one condemning the threats of the university to fire its graduate students and the infringement on faculty rights and academic freedom, and a second calling for higher wages and departmental autonomy in hiring and advocating for a meaningful resolution to the strike. 

To be very clear: The university’s current position is that they would rather destroy entire departments, including almost all of the social sciences and humanities at UCSC, and fire hundreds of graduate students than to have a single substantive meeting to discuss a solution to the cost of living crisis. This would willfully lead to graduate student homelessness, lack of access to medical care, and deportation for graduate students who already barely get by. That position is hopelessly reckless and must be abandoned. 
Alternatively, strikers once again invite the administration to the table to have a substantive conversation about the material conditions in which we live and to bring the strike to a peaceful end. 

Of note: More than a few strikers are ready to begin pushing for a university in which administrators are made irrelevant, and in which workers–faculty, students, and staff–govern the university collectively. One supporter asked: How much longer until we abolish the UC Regents and truly return this university to its core missions of teaching and research by placing it in the hands of its teachers, students, and scholars. 
Some of today’s action items: 

  • Join strikers on the picket line, beginning tomorrow at 7:30am. Please bring friends! You can also bring supplies: sunscreen, hand sanitizer, healthy food, and large containers of drinking water are always in demand. 
  • FACULTY: Please attend tomorrow’s faculty senate meeting and vote in favor of the resolutions condemning administration’s threats and in support of the COLA campaign. 
  • Cancel your classes and sections, and do not ask your students to cross the picket line. 
  • Lecturers should consider holding their classes at the picket. 
  • Push back the dates of large assignments, or as some instructors have done, cancel them. 
  • Write to the administration about how you feel about Lori Kletzer and Cynthia Larive threatening to fire hundreds of graduate students for demanding to be able to afford to live where they work. 
  • If you were a faculty member or student who witnessed or recorded video or photographs of police violence please write a description of what you saw and send footage to: mas1218@gmail.com. 
  • Share media coverage of the strike. 

As always, thank you so so much for your support, and extra special thanks to our undergraduates and to the faculty who have been coming out to support strikers–we are so grateful. See you tomorrow!

Notice of Violation of UC-UAW CBA

From: Sheila Kulkarni, Recording Secretary of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Unit at UCSB
To: Napolitano, Regents, Larive, Kletzer, Williams
CC: COLA UCSC and COLA UCSB lists
Date: Feb 18, 2020, 4:50 PM
Subject: Notice of Violation of UC-UAW CBA

Dear UC President Napolitano, and all others it may concern,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Sheila Kulkarni, and I am the Recording Secretary of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Unit at UC Santa Barbara. 

First, I would like to thank you for your unwavering dedication to upholding our hard-won union contract. In your own words, “the obligations between the University and its unions are negotiated and memorialized systemwide in collective bargaining agreements.”

As such, I am obligated to inform you that your notice dated Friday, February 14th, 2020, indicating that strike participation “will have consequences, up to and including termination of existing employment at the University” is in violation of the UC-UAW Collectively Bargained Agreement (CBA), Article 3 (Appointment Security), Section D.

Article 3 Section D of the UC-UAW CBA states that an Academic Student Employee (ASE) appointment cannot be revoked when promised unless a student has become “academically ineligible.” Per a previous email from Veronica Hamilton, UAW 2865 Bargaining Unit Chair at UC Santa Cruz, the University is in receipt of at least 80 union grievances regarding fraudulent student conduct charges brought against striking TAs. As the University has already violated Article 8 (Discipline & Dismissal) subsections A and B by issuing these student conduct summons, the University has no standing to terminate ASEs who have been promised employment in spring quarter.

To be clear, if you are a TA who has been promised an appointment for spring quarter in any way, formally or informally, verbally or in writing, this statement from President Napolitano is in clear violation of your union rights. To remedy this, please get in contact with me or anyone on our contract enforcement team at santabarbara@uaw2865.org to file a union grievance. We are more than happy to help file grievances on behalf of our colleagues at UC Santa Cruz. 

It is shameful to see the UC administration so plainly transgressing the UC-UAW CBA that they have cited multiple times (falsely) as a way to avoid negotiating with UCSC graduate students. As such, I hope this issue can come to a speedy resolution in which the University revokes these baseless threats. I look forward to working with all parties involved. 

All the best,

Sheila Kulkarni
they/them/theirs
Rent Burden: 37% (what’s this?)
Ph.D Student, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Unit Recording Secretary, UAW 2865
University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSC Call for Solidarity

February 18, 2020

Dear graduate students at other UCs,

Our struggle for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) is your struggle as well. In this crucial moment, we fundamentally and absolutely need your collective strength to help us. We have taken enormous risks, and our fight needs your solidarity now.

This Friday, February 21 at 11:59pm is the UCSC administration’s “final” deadline for the submission of “final” grades withheld in Fall quarter, set according to the public directive of UC President Janet Napolitano. To quote EVC Lori Kletzer: striking students have been given this deadline “to submit all missing grades, to end the strike and to fulfill their contractual obligations…Those who do not submit full grade information by February 21 will not receive spring quarter appointments or will be dismissed from their spring quarter appointments.”

Rather than sit down and bargain over our demand to be paid enough to live where we work, the bosses are willing to fire hundreds of ASEs. Wildcats at Santa Cruz therefore call on graduate students across the UC to hold a one-day picket this Friday.

For many of us at Santa Cruz, including dozens of international students, these disciplinary reprisals would not only endanger our position in the UC, and our careers, but our status in this country. We believe that the best defense against this obscene possibility is taking militant, offensive action, escalating our strike, and refusing to submit to intimidation.

The administration is terrified by the prospect of this strike activity spreading. In a meeting with admin over the weekend, we were told that the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) is unwilling to negotiate a COLA because there is no perceivable uptick in labor organizing at other UC campuses. We know this to be untrue, having a far better sense of the growing momentum than UCOP.

The time to demand a UC-wide COLA is now. Walk out on Friday in solidarity against the retaliatory measures that are being threatened against your UCSC comrades, but also to build collective power in the fight for the future of higher education. Organize in your departments, committing to defend one another and insulate each other from administrative retaliation. Perhaps most importantly, help us build a credible counterthreat to this administration by pledging, in your departments and divisions, to withhold grades in the event of retaliation against Santa Cruz graduate strikers.

We have all reached a crucial moment in this struggle, one that could decide its outcome. An injury to one is an injury to all. Show up for Santa Cruz grads under attack; show up for a UC-wide COLA. Let’s go!

Solidarity forever,
UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers

[From Admin] Confidential Personnel Matter

Letter sent to many individual TAs as an email attachment on the evening of Friday, Feb 14, 2020 (around 8pm) from the Office of CPEVC <officeof@ucsc.edu> following Janet Napolitano’s email to the UCSC community and Lori Kletzer’s email to faculty.

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It reads:

February 14, 2020

I am writing because you have not submitted grades for the Fall Quarter and those grades remain outstanding. You received a written warning in early February 2020 for failing to submit Fall Quarter grades as of that date.

The submission of grades is a required duty of your position. Your continued refusal to submit Fall Quarter grades even after receiving a written warning is causing continuing and ongoing harm to the students who earned them and to the operations of the University. You are directed to submit all outstanding grades from the Fall Quarter by no later than February 21, 2020. Your failure to follow this directive will lead to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal from your current and/or Spring Quarter appointment.

I also want to emphasize that you are expected to perform your required job duties for the duration of your appointment. Participation in the wildcat strike not only violates the no strikes clause in the collective bargaining agreement between the UAW and the University but also reflects a failure to meet your employment responsibilities and will result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

If you believe that you have been identified in error as a person who has not submitted Fall Quarter grades, please let me know as soon as possible. Otherwise, we look forward to your expected cooperation in submitting Fall Quarter grades by no later than February 21, 2020.

Sincerely,
Lori G. Kletzer
Interim Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

cc: Jennifer Schiffner, Director of Employee & Labor Relations Quentin Williams, Acting Vice Provost & Dean of Graduate Studies

[From Admin] Graduate student strike update

Email from EVC Lori Kletzer sent to UCSC faculty on Friday, Feb 14, 2020, at 6:20 pm, immediately following Napolitano’s email. Soon after, Kletzer’s office began sending letters to TAs warning them to release grades or face disciplinary action and/or dismissal from current and/or Spring appointments.

TL;DR

“All students who have continued to withhold fall grades will be informed that they have until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 21 to submit all missing grades, to end the strike and to fulfill their contractual obligations… Those who do not submit full grade information by February 21 will not receive spring quarter appointments or will be dismissed from their spring quarter appointments.”

Lori Kletzer

Full Email

February 14, 2020

To: UC Santa Cruz Faculty
From: Interim Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer
Subject: Graduate student strike update

Over my nearly 28 years of affiliation with UC Santa Cruz, I have never lost the inspiration I feel over the promise and potential of this campus, the accomplishments of our faculty, and our collective dedication to the teaching, research, and public service mission. The grading, and now teaching, strike disrupts our educational mission and imposes costs on students, particularly our undergraduate students. At this difficult moment for our campus, we may disagree about tactics and approach; however, we all agree that the motivating issues are real and felt by many.

The housing crisis is complex, systemic, and at the same time, deeply personal for many. There are no easy answers and in so many ways it is a challenge that is larger than our community. We have struggled with this challenge almost as long as I have been on this campus, at times with more success than others. 

Where we differ, however, is in the approach to solve this problem. Our graduate student instructors and teaching assistants have chosen to ignore their own union and to strike, demanding a significant increase to their existing, union-negotiated compensation package, an increase that they have characterized as a cost of living adjustment.  

Recognizing the short-term challenge to housing, Chancellor Larive announced two new programs to provide doctoral and MFA students with greater financial security and predictability, at a cost of  approximately $7 million per year.

  • Beginning in fall 2020, we will offer new and continuing doctoral students support packages for five years (two years for MFA students). These packages will have a minimum level of support equivalent to that of a 50 percent teaching assistantship.
  • Second, until more graduate student housing becomes available, a need-based, annual housing supplement of $2,500 for doctoral and MFA students offered through a partnership between the Financial Aid Office and the Graduate Division.

Despite this overture that provides significant improvement in financial support, the grading strike did not come to an end, but escalated to a full teaching strike. And while I understand the drivers, I do not support the approach. Moreover, and more importantly, the approach taken by our striking graduate student employees is having a significant negative impact on the emotional well-being and academic success of our undergraduate students, our dedicated staff who have gone above and beyond to mitigate the consequences, and the very mission of our campus.

I have met with graduate student activists on several occasions to explore ways in which we could have a substantive conversation and discuss how we can support them beyond the programs that we have already announced and which, I believe, substantially improves their financial security and ability to plan.

Despite these efforts, our students continue to strike. They continue to refuse to provide grade information for the fall quarter. And they continue to interrupt the very programs that change the lives of our undergraduate students. Given this unwillingness to de-escalate and come together, I share with you here a difficult next step that our campus must take.  

Today, all students who have continued to withhold fall grades will be informed that they have until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 21 to submit all missing grades, to end the strike and to fulfill their contractual obligations. We are giving these students one final opportunity to fulfill their teaching responsibilities and show that they can fulfill future responsibilities. Those who do not submit full grade information by February 21 will not receive spring quarter appointments or will be dismissed from their spring quarter appointments. 

As faculty members, I urge you to speak with your TAs and advisees and encourage them to stop their unsanctioned strike and to submit the missing grades.  I understand the close bond you have with your students, the promise they represent as scholars and practitioners, the vital role they play in supporting our educational mission, and I hope you will be able to discuss with them that returning to work is in their own personal and professional interests and is in the best interests of all our students. I acknowledge and thank you for supporting our students and engaging in what are very difficult conversations.

This is not a step we have taken lightly. Contingency plans will be developed to mitigate the issues this will create once we understand who has returned to work and who has not. I understand that this is going to result in challenges but believe at this point, it is our best option.  

I trust soon we can get back to our shared academic purpose—teaching and research. I sincerely hope that most, if not all, of our TAs decide to re-join us in this vital endeavor. 

[From Admin] An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff and Students at UC Santa Cruz

Email from UC President Janet Napolitano, sent Friday, Feb 14, 2020 at 6:01 pm via UCSC Public Affairs. Soon after, Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer emailed faculty and then began sending letters to TAs warning them to release grades or face disciplinary action and/or dismissal from current and/or Spring appointments.

TL;DR

“Participation in the wildcat strike will have consequences, up to and including the termination of existing employment at the University.”

Janet Napolitano

Full Email

February 14, 2020


To: UC Santa Cruz Community
From: Janet Napolitano, President, University of California
Subject: An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff and Students at UC Santa Cruz

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:

The University of California respects its labor unions and its unionized workers. They provide valuable services throughout the University, from gardening and food service on our campuses to patient care in our hospitals to lecturers in our classrooms. The obligations between the University and its unions are negotiated and memorialized systemwide in collective bargaining agreements, which must be voted on and ratified by the union membership. With respect to the collective bargaining agreement between the University and Academic Student Employee-Teaching Assistants (TAs) and their union, the United Auto Workers (UAW), the TAs received the following benefits:

  • A waiver of tuition, plus a $300 campus fee remission
  • 3% annual wage increases (in line with other University employees)
  • A child care subsidy of $3,300 per year (unique to TAs)
  • A one-time signing bonus
  • A complete remission of any health care premiums

In exchange for these guaranteed benefits, the University received a contractual promise that the TAs would not strike while the collective bargaining agreement was in effect through June 30, 2022.

Consequently, the wildcat strike by UC Santa Cruz TAs, where a number of TAs have withheld or deleted fall grades and are refusing to teach classes, is unauthorized and in direct violation of the existing collective bargaining agreement. The striking TAs have asked whether the University would either re-open the agreement or negotiate a separate side letter with them to provide a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) over and above the wage increase already in the agreement to account for the high cost of housing in Santa Cruz.

The University will not re-open the agreement or negotiate a separate side-letter. To accede to the demands of a group of employees engaged in an unauthorized wildcat strike would undercut the very foundation of an agreement negotiated in good faith by the UAW and ratified by thousands of members across the system.

We are sympathetic to the high cost of housing in Santa Cruz and the pressure this puts on TAs, but a wildcat strike is not the way to get relief. Chancellor Larive has already proposed two measures to help graduate students: a $2,500 need-based housing fellowship; and for doctoral students a 5-year, funding program at the minimum support level of a 50 percent teaching assistantship. We can work together to persuade our legislators in Sacramento to support the University’s request for more graduate student support. We could also work together to develop other legislative proposals to speed the construction of student housing.  

However, holding undergraduate grades hostage and refusing to carry out contracted teaching responsibilities is the wrong way to go. Therefore, participation in the wildcat strike will have consequences, up to and including the termination of existing employment at the University.

It should not come to this. We urge the striking TAs to turn in their grades and return to the classroom. The TAs must honor their side of the bargain, just as the University must honor its commitments. The wildcat strike must come to an end.

Yours very truly,

Janet Napolitano
President

Strike Updates Day 4

From Joe Klein
February 13, 2020

Dear Colleagues, 

I wanted to write again with some updates from today’s strike. 
Hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others rallied for a fourth day at both entrances to campus. Energy was incredibly high all morning, and for the fourth consecutive day, metro bus service to campus was disrupted due to the picket. Faculty again marched to join the picket in support of the strike and against Chancellor Cynthia Larive and EVC Lori Kletzer’s use of police force against undergraduates, graduates, and supporters. 

Around 2:30 pm, a huge group of STEM graduate students wearing their lab coats marched down to the base of campus to join the main picket. In a joyful show of power, the strikers then peacefully closed down the main entrance to campus and marched in a massive picket line around the intersection of Bay and High, led by STEM graduate students, effectively closing down the intersection. The main entrance to campus remained closed for the rest of the day. Strikers continued to picket, hold teach-ins and workshops, dance, and organize. 

As of today, UCSC has spent approximately $1.2 million on the police presence at the picket line. Meanwhile, all of the students who were arrested yesterday are facing 14 day suspensions and being blocked from returning to campus, even if they pay rent to live there. 

In a direct rebuke to administrations claims of undergraduates being harmed by the strike, today UCSC’s undergraduate student government unanimously voted to support the strike for a COLA for all graduate students. The exact phrase used by an undergraduate student government representative in today’s general assembly was that “Lori Kletzer is a lying snake.” Undergraduates will be convening their own general assembly tomorrow at 12pm at the Quarry Amphitheater to continue to organize. 

Indeed, there is a significant amount of false information being put out by UCSC administration, including that they are unable to negotiate with our union to meet our demand; this is plainly false–such negotiations happen all the time, including to resolve the 2018 West Virginia teacher’s strike. Our statewide union is attempting to set up a meeting with UCSC administration, but as of the time of writing, administration has not responded, nor offered anything substantial, so the strike continues!

Today’s action items: 

As always, thank you so so much for your support, and extra special thanks to our undergraduates and to the faculty who came out to support strikers today–we are so grateful. 

See you tomorrow!

Strike Updates Day 3

From Joe Klein
February 12, 2020

Dear Colleagues, 

I wanted to write again with some updates from today’s strike. 

Hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others rallied for a third day at both entrances to campus. Energy was incredibly high all morning, and for the third day in a row, metro bus service to campus was disrupted due to the picket. In late morning, picketers from the west entrance to campus marched down Empire Grade to the main entrance of campus, where they joined the main picket and together the strikers peacefully closed down the main entrance to campus for the third day in a row. After being joined once again by faculty marching down from the Women’s center, hundreds of strikers again took over the entire intersection of Bay and High, and held the intersection for over 4 hours, graduate and undergraduate linked arm-in-arm in the face of the police. To my knowledge, this was the most significant show of student and worker power in UCSC’s recent memory. 

For a third day, the UCSC administration’s police response has been unconscionable. At the behest of UCSC administrators, squads of police in riot gear again threatened, beat, bloodied, and arrested strikers. Police arrested 16 strikers who were sitting peacefully in circles. The full number of injured students is pending, but at least one student had her finger broken by police, another was bleeding profusely from his head after being hit by batons, and others received bruised ribs and bones. Many faculty witnessed these attacks and put themselves between the police and the strikers. Strikers refused to leave the streets until all of the arrested people were released. However one striker remains in police custody after choosing not to identify themselves; COLA organizers are working on supporting and ensuring this person’s release.

Today in a meeting with GSA representatives, EVC Lori Kletzer said that UCSC is spending $300,000 per day for these police; this amounts to a running total of $900,000 dollars for three days of police presence, and presumably $1.5 million come Friday. I wonder what else we could do with that kind of money?

An update on strike progress: Despite weeks and months of claiming tied hands, administrators continue to come to the table thanks to intense pressure from strikers. Yesterday, Santa Cruz city council unanimously voted to issue a letter of support for a COLA. And significantly, today, UCSC Director of Employment and Labor Relations Jennifer Schiffner sent a letter to our statewide union asking for a meeting this week. Remember that just a few weeks ago they claimed this was impossible; direct action does indeed get the goods. However as of yet, administration has failed to meet the demand for a COLA, so the strike continues!

Today’s action items: 

As always, thank you so so much for your support, and extra special thanks to our undergraduates and to the faculty who came out to support strikers today–we are so grateful. 

See you tomorrow!

Strike Updates Day 1

Adapted from an email by Joe Klein to Anthropology colleagues

Some news and updates from the first day of the strike:

Today, several hundred of graduate students, undergraduate students, faculty, lecturers, staff, and others rallied at both entrances to UCSC’s main campus, and joint actions were happening at 5 other UC campuses. The UCSC picket line was successful in disrupting all metro bus service to campus throughout the morning. Then, in a brilliant burst of energy, a huge group of faculty wearing regalia and carrying signs and banners marched through the street to the picket line down from the Women’s Center. This amazing burst of energy gave strikers the numbers and courage to join their faculty in the streets, and to shut down the main entrance to campus. Strikers took and held the entrance to campus, and eventually took over the entire intersection of Bay and High.

However, after most faculty had left, the response by UCSC police became aggressive and violent. Throughout the morning, there were dozens of UC police officers present at both entrances, brought in (with UCSC money) from across the Bay Area, attempting to intimidate and provoke strikers.

By the afternoon, the police had barricaded surrounding streets to prevent cars from driving near the picket. A young woman drove past the barricade to deliver water to the strikers, and upon arrival at the picket, was arrested by the approximately 30 UC police and CHP officers stationed at the base of campus. Strikers linked arms in nonviolent protest of this absurd arrest, and the police charged through the crowd in formation, batons out. Several UCSC students were beaten with batons; at least one student ended up at the Health Center after being hit on the head. In their words, “after getting beaten by three officers I went to the health center and I have a concussion and strained neck/back/shoulder.”

After this incident, police retreated and students continued to hold the intersection, initiating meetings, rallies, and dancing. We ended the day at about 5pm with a big general assembly.

So far there is only silence from the administration. So tomorrow the strike continues!

Some ideas of things to do:

  • Come to the picket line in the morning, with as many friends and colleagues as possible, as early as you can. It begins at 7:30. In particular, visible faculty presence seems to deter police aggression.
  • Write our administration and tell them how you feel about students being beaten by bussed-in police.
  • Cancel your classes and sections due to the ongoing strike if you feel able.
  • Inform your undergraduate students that attendance to class is flexible due to the strike.
  • For faculty, change your email signatures to indicate that you teach and advise severely rent burdened students.

Thank you all for your support, and special thanks to our faculty who showed up to join us on the picket today. We are so grateful! See you tomorrow!