More than a month on strike from their jobs as TAs and researchers, hundreds of graduate student employees rally outside regents meeting at UCLA. “Their proposals — their refusal to give us a serious offer — has definitely lit a fire under people.”
has disrupted finals week and stirred angst among students and faculty about term grades — converged on the UCLA campus Wednesday shouting for better pay and benefits and a swift end to the contract dispute.
Gates then, with a fist in the air, led about two dozen in attendance into “Shut it down” chants. When regents later allowed for phone comments, someone named Densie called in from the rally, with cries of “Shut it down!” and “Whose university? Our university!” “We are not ready to go home,” she said. “Their proposals — their refusal to give us a serious offer — has definitely lit a fire under people.”About 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses walk off the job, calling for better pay and benefits.
While UC has made offers that include salary increases, the raises have been far short of the demands from union leaders. However, the two sides have agreed tentatively toUC officials have repeatedly said it is making proposals that are “fair, reasonable and responsive to the union’s priorities.”
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