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March 9, 2020 05:15 am

University of California Students Strike To Protest Graduate Student Pay

There's more than 280,000 students in the prestigious University of California system, spread throughout 10 campuses across the state. But now "a growing number" of students and faculty members are walking out of classes and holding rallies, reports the Los Angeles Times, "as a systemwide movement takes hold in support of graduate students demanding cost-of-living adjustments [COLA] to their salaries."During widespread U.C. campus demonstrations, students filled the Janss Steps at UCLA, Sproul Plaza at U.C. Berkeley and Cheadle Hall at U.C. Santa Barbara on Thursday and other pickets unfolded on Friday. At Santa Cruz -- where the protests began three months ago with a wildcat grading strike that ended in the dismissal of some student workers -- students blocked entrances to campus. At U.C. Riverside and U.C. Irvine crowds marched. "Out of the labs, into the streets!" they chanted, and "Give us COLA, we demand it!" "It seems to be growing like crazy within the U.C.," said Sherry Ortner, professor of anthropology at UCLA. "I think this could really become a national issue." Students at U.C. San Diego voted to begin a grading strike next Monday. Those gathered at UCLA voted to go on a full teaching strike as early as next week if graduate students in at least 10 departments vote in favor... At U.C. Davis and U.C. Santa Barbara, some graduate students are on strike as well, although the number is unclear. At San Diego they will begin a grading strike Monday, and at Berkeley the graduate students in five departments have declared themselves "strike ready."

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