Instead of searching for exoplanets, I'm on strike with 48,000 colleagues.
, have been engaged in a strike since Nov. 14. This strike is in response to the university's unfair bargaining practices as we try to negotiate a new contract for each of our four bargaining units: academic researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, and academic student employees . astronomical
Workers are arguing for a substantial raise to match the sky-high cost of living in many of the California cities where UC campuses are located, as well as other protections for workers including expanding parental leave, making the university more accessible and creating safeguards against workplace harassment and bullying. The strike, which is the, is meant as a show of collective power, to demonstrate the need for academic workers' labor to keep the university functioning.
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars do a large amount of the teaching and research work at universities. Yet, 92% of graduate students at UC are"rent burdened," spending between 30-90% of our incomes on rent. Workers on strike have shared stories of living in their cars, commuting long distances, facing food insecurity, and other hardships endured while working through graduate school.
"This fight ... is about making sure that higher education is equitable and accessible to all, and making science itself more sustainable for the people working within it."
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