Thousands of academics strike in California: how is research affected?

that he respects workers’ decision to strike and acknowledges the “significant challenge” of California’s high housing costs. But the union’s request to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University”, he added.

Demonstrators allege that the UC system has used unfair negotiating tactics. The union has filed at least 30 unfair-practice charges against UC with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, for allegedly bypassing the official bargaining process, withholding information needed to bargain and intimidating union members. The board has issued complaints in 14 cases.

Fighting for a fairer UC is important, says Stephanie Wankowicz, a structural-biology graduate student at UC San Francisco, but she worries that the strike could delay her graduation, which is currently scheduled for the spring.Miranda started breeding a cohort of laboratory mice a few weeks before the strikes began. “If the strike goes on for much longer, I will have to not use all those animals I’ve prepared, and that probably sets me back around two months,” he says.

The strikes have also generated more work for faculty members, as they try to keep classes and labs operating despite staff absences. “Of course I’m worried about my lab,” says Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, a biology faculty member at UC Davis, who joined the protests on 18 November with her children and one of her graduate students, in solidarity with the demonstrators. “But I’m more worried about having an environment of integrity in my lab.

“I see the strike as not only helping us individually, but as a necessary course correction for science,” says Wankowicz. “I miss my scientific research a lot, but hopefully, at the end of the day, this movement creates better science.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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