Daily Nexus: UCSB Students to Join UCSC wildcat COLA strike

Monday evening graduate students at the University of California Santa Barbara voted to go on strike Thursday if their demands for a cost of living adjustment were not me by administrators. Student paper, the Daily Nexus, reports that the vote followed a 16 hour occupation of Cheadle Hall calling on UCSB's chancellor to email UC president Janet Napolitano as well as UC Santa Cruz administrators to denounce threats to fire striking graduate students at UCSC.

Much like the UCSC stoppage, the UCSB strike would be a wild cat action as students are acting independently of the United Autoworkers Union that represents graduate students in the UC system. Cost of Living adjustments (COLA) have been a focal point of graduate student organizing across the UC system with movements on every campus except San Francisco.