Fired UC Santa Cruz wildcat strikers counter reinstatement offer
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UC Santa Cruz GSIs who were fired after a continued wildcat strike for a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, were offered reinstatement Monday.
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UC Berkeley graduate students start wildcat strike, hold ‘digital picket line’ for COLA
Graduate student workers from 16 UC Berkeley departments officially began their wildcat strike Monday, pledging to withhold grades and fully cease all work duties in support of a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, from UC administration.
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COLA organizers set up GoFundMe to support striking efforts
Pay Us More UCB, a group dedicated to achieving a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for campus graduate students, started a GoFundMe page Wednesday to raise money in support of COLA strikers.
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Labor stoppage to begin after UC Berkeley COLA General Assembly vote
The Berkeley Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, General Assembly passed two votes Monday regarding a potential wildcat strike in support of a COLA for all UC graduate students.
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COLA is a necessity for GSIs
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS: Graduate student instructors deserve to be paid enough to live where they go to school
In order to support graduate students in the long term, the UC system must make a dedicated effort toward upholding academic progress by giving GSIs COLA.
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Advocates urge UC to divest from Maunakea telescope, direct funds to COLA
Student advocates visited the UC Office of the President in Oakland on March 2 to demand the UC system to divest from the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Maunakea and direct funds toward a cost-of-living adjustment for graduate student employees.
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Graduate student worker union, UC file unfair labor practice charges against each other
United Auto Workers, or UAW, Local 2865 — the union that represents UC graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, readers and tutors — filed unfair labor practice charges against the UC system Feb. 27 and March 2, after weeks of system-wide protests in support of a cost of living adjustment.
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UC Berkeley African American studies department graduate students ready to strike if COLA demands not met
UC Berkeley graduate students in the department of African American studies released a letter to Chancellor Carol Christ, claiming they are ready to strike if the administration fails to meet the demands of campus organizers in support of a cost of living adjustment by March 6.
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UC graduate students rebuff university concession, reaffirm demands
Graduate students from several UC campuses and UC Berkeley undergraduates met for a “Cal COLA: Pay Us More UCB” general assembly meeting to discuss protest plans and a reaffirmation of their demands.
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Protesters call for cost of living adjustment on Sproul Plaza, at Crossroads dining hall
“COLA 4 All,” “Solidarity with UCSC” and “Eat the Regents” were some of the phrases written on the signs present during a protest Feb. 21, which was staged in solidarity with the UC Santa Cruz graduate students on strike for a cost of living adjustment.
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