UAW 2865 UCB Graduate Students March To Sproul Hall To Demand COLA & Against Union Busting

UAW 2865 UCB graduate students, undergrads and other union and labor supporters rallied on 2/28/20 at UCB and marched to UC Sproul Hall to deliver a petition to the Graduate Dean calling for negotiations on a cost of living clause for graduate students.

They also protested the firing by UC president Janet Napolitano of 54 UCSC Graduate Students on a COLA strike for failure to turn in fall quarter 2019 grades.

UAW 2865 graduate students rallied and spoke out about their inability to survive without a major wage increase and cost of living clause. The union has also filed an unfair labor practice against US for refusing to negotiate with the union.

UC San Barbara and Davis graduate students have joined the strike.
Under the UAW 2865 union contract, it would be a violation of the contract for the union to support the growing statewide action for a COLA clause but some UAW 2865 graduate students and undergraduate students have argued for a statewide strike that could win the demands of a COLA and also get the jobs back of fired UCSC graduate students.

Additional media:
UCSC Graduate Students Wildcatting For Survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FoEkSBrFUk

Justice For UCSC Graduate Students-UCSC Wildcat Striker Natalie Ng Speaks Out To UC Management
https://youtu.be/P4RvjIj3IUo

UCSF Professors Support Striking Graduate Students
http://ucscfa.org/2019/12/scfa-solidarity-with-graduate-students/

Graduate Student Strikes Are Spreading in California
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-strikes-are-spreading-in-california

UAW 2865 Statement On 54 Terminated Santa Cruz Workers
http://uaw2865.org/uaw-2865-statement-on-54-terminated-santa-cruz-workers/

UAW 2865 Gradute Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against University
http://uaw2865.org/uc-student-worker-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-the-university/

Across UC System, Graduate Students Unite for COLA Movement
http://dailynexus.com/2020-02-13/across-uc-system-graduate-students-unite-for-cola-movement/

Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org