As a strike of 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stretches into a third week, schools across the country are watching
How the University of California Strike Could Reshape Higher Education
“We are overworked and severely underpaid. We earn poverty wages,” says Rafael Jaime, a 33-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles and the president of United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents 19,000 student workers participating in the strike. “What we’re really seeing is a crisis in academia.”A Larger Problem
But while that dynamic isn’t new, experts say the University of California strike stands out among previous labor movements in academia. “The system is broken, graduate school should be affordable for everyone, and only this labor movement can fix it,” he said in a University leaders have emphasized that graduate student workers are employed part-time, for no more than 20 hours per week, while they pursue their degrees. The university proposed a new salary minimum of $24,874 for teaching fellows and teaching assistants, $28,275 for graduate student researchers, and $60,000 for postdoctoral scholars.
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