According to United Auto Workers Local 4811, workers will hit the picket lines Monday morning at UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, with UC Irvine workers joining the lines Wednesday.
The decision to send riot cops to UCSC is meant to send a deliberate message to academic workers that neither the campus administration nor the White House and the two pro-war parties will yield in the slightest to popular pressure.
A rolling strike by unionized academic workers upset about the University of California's response to pro-Palestinian protests at various campuses will spread.
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Academic workers at UC Santa Barbara are being called to walk off the job and strike on June 3. Alongside four other UCs, the strikes would comprise 31,500 academic workers.