Kouba, along with tens of thousands of UC academic workers across the system's 10 campuses, walked off the job Monday morning, three weeks before final exams, after contract negotiations with the University of California failed to reach an agreement by the union's Nov. 14 strike deadline.
The 48,000 workers, represented by four different units of the United Auto Workers, include graduate student teaching assistants, researchers and tutors, as well as postdoctoral and professional researchers.They're calling for higher payto reflect escalating living costs, transit passes to cover their commutes, and child care reimbursement, to assist families, among other items.
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