It was a busy weekend in the University of California system. On Friday, somewhere between 54 and 80 graduate Teaching Assistants at UC Santa Cruz were fired due to their failure to turn in grades as a result of an ongoing wildcat strike. At midnight on Sunday a poll closed for UC San Diego grad students assessing willingness to participate in either a full wildcat strike or rolling strike actions. The UCSD Guardian covered both stories Sunday.
The wildcat strike, calling for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) pay raise for graduate students who are forced in to either overcrowded housing or homelessness in California's pricey real estate market, has so far spread to UC Santa Barbara where graduate students launched a full wildcat strike and UC Davis where students began a grading strike both on Thursday.
UCSC graduate students, who have so far faced arrests and firings since their strike moved beyond the withholding of grades last month, were calling for a day of action across the UC system on Monday and for the strike to spread as far and wide as possible.
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