Hey y'all
Hope everybody's been doin alright.
You might remember some of the posts from this acc a few months back sharing some of the pictures from strike events at UCSD, part of the broader UC student worker strike. Fairucnow.org
Posting today to notify and warn others about retaliatory behavior which is conducted during strike and even post-strike.
In this case, students are being pressured out of the school after years of PhD work, via 'unsatisfactory' grades on their research credits.
To be clear, we still have responsibility to pass our own classes during strike to remain in 'good academic standing'; however, the credits in question are essentially filler credits which are tied to their labor for the university as researchers.
This boils down to retaliation against striking workers, and a threat to future labor activists that UC is willing to blatantly break labor law to punish them for striking
As we move forward, a huge part of protecting each other post-strike is fighting these types of abuses and filing grievances as UC fails to follow the negotiated and ratified contracts
The fight rages on against abuses like these
Check out more info from https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/02/06/uc-san-diego-graduate-workers-file-complaints-of-retaliation
There's also some other stories around the media, take care to critically examine the framing of the media story regarding labor activity before accepting their narrative
Solidarity Forever