UC San Diego Teaching Assistants Join Strike
As graduate student teaching assistants at UCLA continued their strike Tuesday, hundreds of their peers at UC San Diego joined in, picketing the campus entrances and staging a noon march.
Late Tuesday, UC Berkeley graduate students announced they would join the so-called “rolling” strike today to protest the UC administration’s refusal to give them collective bargaining rights.
“This thing is spreading,” said John Meaderis, a UCLA graduate student who is one of the organizers of the five-day job action.
University officials said the strike continued to have minimal impact at UCLA, but organizers said there was increased discussion between the picketers and undergraduates walking past them to class.
Student organizer Scott Prudham said the majority of UC Berkeley’s 1,200 graduate teaching assistants were expected to walk off their jobs today to join picket lines.
“I expect a very significant presence all over the campus,” he said. “We’ll be visible everywhere all day.”
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