Just weeks after the University of California and academic workers celebrated historic wage gains in new labor contracts, campuses are scrambling over how to pay for them, with potential cuts in new graduate students looming.
University of California graduate student workers ratified a new labor agreement that will boost wages by up to 80%, ending a historic strike that upended fall term finals and grading.
The University of California and union leaders representing 36,000 student academic workers reached a tentative agreement, but a group of opponents is mobilizing a statewide campaign urging a no vote.