UC Santa Cruz fired 54 graduate student workers who were on strike demanding higher pay to afford the area’s high cost of living.
Students escalated the grade strike in early February to a full work stoppage, refusing to teach, hold office hours, conduct research or post grades.at a campus protest Feb. 12, and UC Santa Cruz and the UC president UC Santa Cruz spokesman Scott Hernandez-Jason said in a statement that 96% of grades were submitted and the “vast majority” of graduate students have returned to work, but 54 students continued to “disrupt campus by withholding grades for undergraduate students in a way that unfairly impairs their education.”Among those fired Friday was Brenda Arjona, a third-year doctoral student in anthropology who has a 10-year-old son and lives in student family housing.
She had known losing her job was a possibility but wanted to keep pushing on with the strike. “I should not have to live this way,” Arjona said. Hamilton said the $2,500 supplement offered by the university after negotiations this year provides students with only an extra $200 a month, which does not do enough to fix the problem. She said students shouldn’t have to relinquish their only leverage for the university to come to the table.“They shouldn’t fire anybody,” said Hamilton, who is a graduate student teaching assistant but was not among those fired.
Hamilton said that the contract’s terms were inadequate and that 83% of student employees at UC Santa Cruz voted against it at the time.saying that the student workers participating in the grading strike had until Feb. 21 to submit missing grades and that those who did not would not receive spring quarter jobs as teaching assistants, or would be dismissed from their spring quarter appointments.
xeni suhaunah It's a neoliberal arts college
suhaunah 😯
suhaunah Unfortunately too often this action is what increases our homeless figures your expenses are often 3 to 4 times more than your earnings positioning you as constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul.
xeni suhaunah How is it legal to fire ppl who r in strike plus what a scum move from the uni. Plus who is 'the uni' --- admin or profs? Who decided?
suhaunah But they'll probably keep raising student tuition fees
suhaunah Come get your “education” but if you challenge us, get out
suhaunah Please share with everyone!
suhaunah This is terrible.
suhaunah Universities have to step up! This is shameful.
suhaunah California liberalism = rhetoric without substance
suhaunah They should sue the university
suhaunah A shame cali is so beautiful, but people are leaving in droves bc of this exact reason
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