UC Santa Cruz fired 54 graduate student workers who were on strike demanding higher pay to afford the area’s high cost of living. “I should not have to live this way,” one fired student told suhaunah.
UC Santa Cruz fired 54 graduate student workers who were on strike demanding higher pay to afford the area’s high cost of living.
Students escalated the grade strike in early February to a full work stoppage, refusing to teach, hold office hours, conduct research or post grades.at a campus protest Feb. 12, and UC Santa Cruz and the UC president UC Santa Cruz spokesman Scott Hernandez-Jason said in a statement that 96% of grades were submitted and the “vast majority” of graduate students have returned to work, but 54 students continued to “disrupt campus by withholding grades for undergraduate students in a way that unfairly impairs their education.”Among those fired Friday was Brenda Arjona, a third-year doctoral student in anthropology who has a 10-year-old son and lives in student family housing.
She had known losing her job was a possibility but wanted to keep pushing on with the strike. “I should not have to live this way,” Arjona said. Hamilton said the $2,500 supplement offered by the university after negotiations this year provides students with only an extra $200 a month, which does not do enough to fix the problem. She said students shouldn’t have to relinquish their only leverage for the university to come to the table.“They shouldn’t fire anybody,” said Hamilton, who is a graduate student teaching assistant but was not among those fired.
Hamilton said that the contract’s terms were inadequate and that 83% of student employees at UC Santa Cruz voted against it at the time.saying that the student workers participating in the grading strike had until Feb. 21 to submit missing grades and that those who did not would not receive spring quarter jobs as teaching assistants, or would be dismissed from their spring quarter appointments.
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