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We are UCSC graduate student fighting for a living wage and #COPSOFFCAMPUS . We strike, we rebel, we revolt!
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At UC, encampment organizers, where they have not been routed by police forces, are negotiating with campus administrators. One strategic consideration they face is whether a strike by grad workers will put them in a stronger position to win more than what is currently on offer.
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We are fired and it's official.
@UCSC
terminated student workers engaged in
#ucscstrike
strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment (
#COLA
). Did we get a COLA? No! So why would we stop striking?
#cola4all
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🚨🚨UCSC fired graduate student workers win back their health insurance coverage!! 🚨🚨
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UC is one of the largest landlords in the state of California. Would be a shame if we had one big rent strike, wouldn’t it.....
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Bernie endorsed our campaign,
#UCSCstrike
, and our fight for
#COLA4all
. We stand with
@BernieSanders
as he stands with us! Solidarity forever!
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
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Students workers fired by
@UCSC
for striking will be stripped of their health insurance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's over 80 people, among them are pregnant, undocumented, international, immunocompromised, chronically ill people, and some of them have dependents.
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Graduate student workers at the UC make $21,906.
Starting salaries, UCLA Police Department: $76,000 -- $108,000
Starting salaries, Assistant Professor, UCLA: $72,000 -- $105,000
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WHY ARE UCSC GRAD STUDENT WORKERS ON A WILD CAT STRIKE?
As early as September 2019, organizers as part of the GSA, UAW2865, and from across campus have been calling for a Cost of Living Adjustment. The demand has been presented to UCSC administration without equivocations. (1/)
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We may lose our jobs for striking but this strike is not just about a living wage; it's about the future of higher education and who has access to it
#ucscstrike
#cola4all
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We begin week two of our full wildcat strike. We confront a problem that transcends Santa Cruz: The domination of education by market forces, as well as administrators who see the market as the solution to all problems. Their reign must end.
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Stand off w/ 100+ cops in riot gear for nearly 4 hours today. 16 students arrested. We demand a living wage, not a police campus
#UCSCstrike
#cola4all
This is how
@ucsc
responds to its workers requesting a living wage - with police and violent arrests. Sixteen arrests reported from the ground so far, one for trying to deliver water to protesters. Follow
@payusmoreucsc
for updates and video.
#CopsOffCampus
#cola4all
#UCSCstrike
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UC Berkeley just voted to begin a full teaching strike next Monday, March 16. Solidarity with
@payusmoreucb
! ✊✊
Spread the strike!!
#COLAstrike
#cola4all
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Workers in the UC are preparing to strike for Palestine. The Joint Council of UAW 4811 has adopted demands and the outlines of a strike strategy ahead of the Strike Authorization Vote next week.
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Nearly 500 graduate students have said they won’t teach next quarter because of the firings. The strike isn't over, it's spreading to other UC campuses, and we are more ready than ever to keep on the picket line.
#UCSCstrike
#cola4all
#colastrike
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ICE directive has been rescinded!
next: ICE should be abolished.
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BREAKING: The UC Police tapped the California National Guard and California emergency services dept for help w/ a surveillance operation targeting UCSC grad student wildcat strike earlier this year.
@VICE
#ucsurveillance
#payusmoreuc
#disciplineandpunish
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This strike is not happening in a vacuum. Earlier this year,
@SW_Columbia
of Columbia University in New York – members of UAW 2710 – ended a 10-week strike by voting on a new contract that included significant concessions from the university.
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Crowd at the west entrance meets the crowd at the main entrance! One thousand people strong holding the streets.⚡️💚
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At least 82 students withheld grades. 54 fired just now were already hired for a teaching position in Spring, and the rest simply won't get hired. So 82 striking grad students are out of a job. Support our strike fund so we can continue the fight
#cola4all
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Sign and share this petition to demand that all fired grad student workers at
@UCSC
are reinstated and all student discipline charges are rescinded!
#UCSCstrike
#cola4all
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Grad workers at UC Santa Cruz are walking off the job today in solidarity with the call from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. This year, International Workers' Day means international solidarity with Palestine.
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UCSC blackout starts now! No class, no work all day! Campus is shut down in solidarity with fired grad student workers on strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment.
#ucscstrike
#ucscshutdown
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On February 21, we offered to pause the strike and turn in the grades in exchange for non-retaliation and an actual conversation. Lori Kletzer refused and fired 80 TAs instead.
We're still willing to talk. Thus far, the administration has been unwilling to listen.
#UCSCstrike
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There is a common thread that runs through the current plight of US railroad workers and the largest strike in the history of higher education at the UC, which is the question of who sets the terms of workers’ struggle.
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After six weeks on strike, we have voted to accept a contract. We write as union organizers from Santa Cruz, where workers on our campus voted No by a massive margin. Here is our perspective on ratification. 🧵
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Solidarity with Columbia graduate student workers who are striking today! UCSC Wildcats are with you ✊❤️
Spread👏the👏strike👏!
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What solidarity looks like! At least 212 STEM graduate students representing eight STEM departments across the university have pledged to refuse teaching assistantships in the Spring quarter to protest the firing of at least 80 striking grad workers.
#ucscstrike
#cola4all
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.
@uaw2865
voted against calling a strike authorization vote. We won't have a union-backed ULP strike this quarter. We had a legal framework to fight to get
#COPSOFFCAMPUS
, revert discipline, and get fired people their jobs back. But the Bargaining Team voted against.
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LuLing, PhD student in History of Art and Vis Culture, more than 7 months pregnant and refused to submit grades. Now at risk from cruel UC admin retaliation. Talks about nurturing the life inside her but also nurturing our dreams for just education.
#spreadthestrike
#ucstrike
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UCSC grads are going on a FULL STRIKE starting next Monday, February 10. A lot of organizing needs to happen between now and then, but we are on STRIKE!
Reminder: this is an ongoing wildcat strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment for ALL GRADS at UCSC.
#cola4all
#ucscstrike
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) students marching to the picket at the base of campus! We are in the streets now. Come join us!
#spreadthestrike
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Thanks for a shout out
@hasanminhaj
. We promise not to attack you with specific examples from the text. Check out this
#colastrike
coverage in
@patriotact
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Doomsday came and went. We are back in the picket line. Week 3 of
#ucscstrike
has begun
#cola4all
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At a meeting yesterday morning, some on the bargaining team argued that this moment of collective power is the time to revoke the central demand of the negotiations, a demand that has been building for over 3 years: to permanently tie grad workers’ pay to the cost of living in CA
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Some may wonder why, on the eve of the strike, UC did not move another offer to see whether we’d blink at the last second, a one-time last-best-final offer, which, they might have warned, we’d never see again if we go through with the strike.
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We’ve taken over the main entrance! Cops off campus, COLA in our bank accounts!
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Here’s our statement about UC weaponizing COVID-19 to normalize online classes and trying to break the strike. The digital picket continues:
#DONTSUBMIT
!
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Construction workers at
@UCBerkeley
also walked off the job this morning after talking to striking grad workers.
#spreadthestrike
UPDATE: Nearly all UPS drivers in southern and northern CA have been informed by the Teamsters that they can refuse to deliver packages to the U of California during the strike.
Teamsters confirmed. This will likely to have some impact on the U.C. system
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UCSC Admin met with undocumented students whose demands are still not met and said they are “okay” making 6 figures while their students and workers go hungry and face housing insecurity. Fuck the UC. Fuck this capitalist sham of a public university!
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They invented an emoji for UC admin!
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Cops are already congregating across from our picket to police students protesting poverty wages. Day 2 of
#UCSCstrike
#cola4all
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#UCSCstrike
has began! Graduate students are withholding their labor until they get a Cost of Living Adjustment!
#cola4all
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UC president Janet Napolitano, Democratic Party insider and former Homeland Security secretary, is ordering us back to work, threatening termination. But we are strong, and you can’t fire a movement. Help us win the fight. Donate to our strike fund here:
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Today the university hauled in Alameda County Sheriffs and UC police officers from Bay Area campuses as they attempt to repress and intimidate us. But we are strong and growing! Spread the strike! Cops off campus, COLA in our bank account!
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UCSC sociology professor Steve McKay says he is ashamed of the UC today. Talks about the study on Santa Cruz, “No Place Like Home,” in which he and collaborators found 70 percent of SC County renters are rent-burdened. More info:
#payusmoreucsc
#ucstrike
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At 6pm last night, the UAW 2865 bargaining team held a pre-bargaining caucus to discuss their decision of the previous night to drop COLA as an integral demand across subsequent years of the contract.
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Wildcat strikers have been informed they are ‘ineligible’ for future employment at UCSC. Admin is denying grad workers employment and effectively pushing strikers out of their graduate programs
Really looking to see faculty pushing back hard.
Some suggestions - Departments can stop work in support of fired grad students.
Solidarity should be broad.
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The cops have been ticketing and harassing people at the west entrance. Cops off campus, COLA in our bank accounts!
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Since last night's threat from UC president Napolitano to fire 100's of striking UCSC grad students, 850+ non-UCSC faculty have condemned UCSC's brutality to strikers & PLEDGED TO BOYCOTT
@ucsc
until grad students here receive a living wage
#UCSCstrike
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We’re in the New York Times today. “It involves teachers and students at every level,” Ms. Mason said. “We’re all in this together.”
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The city of Santa Cruz is on our side! City Council wants us to get a COLA and
@UCSC
to lower rents and reduce the number of police on campus and their tactics.
#ucscstrike
#cola4all
[BREAKING] Santa Cruz City Council unanimously votes to send a letter to Chancellor Larive encouraging her to grant a COLA, lower rent cost on campus, reduce the number of police on campus and instruct police to only use de-escalation tactics.
#UCSCstrike
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Our strategic orientation has developed over several years of organizing behind the COLA demand. We’ve learned that short-term strikes, even with total shutdowns, do not threaten crises at UC in the way that they might at other worksites.
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You’re either for the wildcat COLA strike or you’re with the admin/UCPD... pass it on
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🧵 At a time when autoworkers are beginning to take on the tier system, the bargaining teams from the largest UAW locals in US higher ed are moving toward implementing tiers in new ways, leaving workers wondering how such a thing could, in any sense, be counted as a victory.
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UCSB GRADS VOTE TO GO ON FULL TEACHING STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH UCSC! No COLA? No grads! We are honored to be in this with you
@ucsb4cola
! 😭😭
#SpreadTheStrike
!
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This sign needs a new checkmark - Berkeley is on strike starting next Monday! Congratulations,
@payusmoreucb
!
#COLAstrike
#cola4all
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Ucsc just shut down another dining hall we liberated. They’d rather see us starve than eat for free.
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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.
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So
@UCSC
chancellor just sent a "Statement on George Floyd" after she hired riot cops to police, beat, and arrest us and deployed National Guard to surveil us at the picket and while she continues student conduct proceedings using "police testimony" as evidence against activists!
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🙌Fred Moten will join us at the picket today for an open conversation and Q&A on what he calls "struggle and study" within and against the university.
#UCSCstrike
#COLAstrike
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Sohum Banerjea, international student in Computer Science, now at risk of losing student visa for striking: The UC says they value students/workers? Then stop paying exploitation wages and engaging in draconian punishment.
#ucstrike
#spreadthestrike
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Today graduate students at the UC launched Strike University-
No tuition, no fees, no grades. Run by students, workers, and organizers.
DM us if you want to be a part of
#StrikeU
and facilitate a session. All are welcome, except cops, landlords, and admin.
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Big UC-wide RALLY ALERT! We are striking to win! Link in bio.
@keeangayamahtta
@two__evils
,
@railroadworkers
#UAWonStrike
#FairUCNow
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As we enter the third week of our strike, and the final week of instruction on all campuses, we should expect to encounter assessments on the strength and power of the strike. We'll likely hear these from colleagues, union reps, faculty, and perhaps even the UC administration.
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A COLA win for us will deliver a lesson to millions of workers across the state who are also squeezed between the bosses’ wage suppression and the landlords’ rent hikes: You can fight, and you can win.
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Our power lies not in the threat of the strike, but in the strike itself, as it unfolds over time. The university’s response shows us, loud and clear, that our success will be determined by how many grad workers are withholding their labor, and for how long they do so.
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We did not submit to the threat of mass firing of strikers. We did not submit Fall grades. We continue to withhold out labor until our demand for a living wage is met. Support striking grad student workers
@UCSC
in their fight for equal access to academia!
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At our press conference this morning Natalie Ng, anthro PhD student: "We are sick, we are tired, and now we are fired, but we won't give up. We won't stop striking until we get COLA and until we are reinstated!”
#ucstrike
#spreadthestrike
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New wave of retaliation for striking began!
@UCSC
is retaliating against individual organizers and suspending them from the university without due process. We are a mass movement and an injury to one is an injury to all! We won't stand for this.
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Grad workers, faculty, and lecturers turned up to support
@geo3550
’s strike fund! More than $600 raised and we’re still going! Solidarity forever from UCSC!
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You think this is work stoppage, UCSC? And you are calling it illegal on your website to pit undergrads against us? Have we stopped proctoring exams? Have we stopped grading papers? Have we stopped caring for our students? The answer is NO!
Get information, FAQs, and resources regarding the grad student strike.
👇👇👇👇
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The only grade we submitted before the doomsday deadline is a giant F to the UC president Napolitano and
@UCSC
administration
#ucscstrike
#COLA4all
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Our strike, which is set to begin tomorrow, is part of a wider struggle around public education in this country. The daring courage of striking teachers—in places like West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Oakland and Los Angeles—move us to withhold our labor in Santa Cruz.
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Incredible crowd out today at Berkeley! Solidarity forever,
@payusmoreucb
!
on strike today in solidarity with UC Santa Cruz grad students fired for demanding a cost of living adjustment. We want COLA, we want cops off campus, we want Janet Napolitano out and we will shut down every UC campus to get it
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Eighty grad students were fired for striking for a COLA. Now strikers have shut down intersections at Coolidge and Hagar and Heller and Koshland. Join us!!
#shutitdown
#ucscstrike
#spreadthestrike
#ucblackout
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Almost 80 student workers fired by
@UCSC
for striking--letters of termination keep coming in
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We intend to win, and we think you can win too. Let’s kill the neoliberal university.
#SpreadTheStrike
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Workers don't need to be risking their health during a global pandemic to have basic job protections! They demand the bare minimum to survive and the management must meet with them. How is calling the cops an appropriate response (ever)?!
Workers at Crush Bar are engaging in a sit-in, demanding accrued sick time, half-pay for scheduled shifts, and a guarantee to be rehired once bars reopen in Portland. Instead of meeting with these workers, the manager has called the police on a bar that celebrates queer protests.
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