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If you read the rest of the article, you would see that the union is alleging that the UC administration was not willing to engage in negotiations to raise comp
by csb6 7y ago
If you read the rest of the article, you would see that the union is alleging that the UC administration was not willing to engage in negotiations to raise compensation for grad students, who were unable to afford their rent payments. It's no wonder a wildcat strike happened.
Also, I am saddened by your comment about withholding grades being an unnecessary "burden". That's the point of a strike. What do you think a strike is? They are withholding, not erasing grades, and the goal of the strikers is to force the university to pay attention. The true "unnecessary burden" is UC Santa Cruz not paying grad students enough to pay their rents. If the university had done so, then the grad students would not have had to try to get the administration's attention.
- oh_sigh 7y agoWhy was it just these 54 grad students that could t afford rent? How many grad students does the system have?
- csb6 7y agoIndeed, 100% of the people affected by injustice will always go on strike. No external factors exist. The likely reason only 54 went on strike is because most grad students were afraid for their jobs, which the university has shown to be well-founded.
- oh_sigh 7y agoI could just as easily say these students went on strike because they are ideologues who were brainwashed by delusions of importance.
- asdff 7y agoBrainwashed by the fact that there isn't money in their account to pay their landlord?
- oh_sigh 7y agoYet 750+ others in similar circumstances don't feel that way. I wonder if these 54 who striked were the poorest of the 800+ grad students?
- legolas2412 7y agoJust the bravest. Probably americans too. International students are afraid of being kicked out and deported. This country amazes me. They seem to be crazy for low skilled labor but want to kick out high skilled ones.
- detaro 7y agoThe article clearly states that more than 54 students striked.
- refurb 7y agoIf you read the rest of the article, you would see that the union is alleging that the UC administration was not willing to engage in negotiations to raise compensation for grad students, who were unable to afford their rent payments. It's no wonder a wildcat strike happened. The freakin union negotiated on behalf of the grad students and agreed to the contract! Where was the union when that was happening? They are playing dumb. They had every opportunity to bring up that issue when the contract was open. I'm pretty sure what happened was the union decided that the deal was good enough for everyone they represented and threw the grad students under the bus.
- antiterra 7y agoIf you think grad students have it bad, where's your sympathy for low-income college students (Santa Cruz has plenty) trying to qualify for a scholarship, internship or new grad job? The reductio ad absurdum here is an ER doctor striking and walking out while their patient's chest is wide open, claiming it was the hospital's problem and that they had been warning the hospital for weeks.