Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike

Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers - the backbone of the vaunted higher education system who research, mentor and teach - are poised to strike Monday in a labor action that could shut down some classes and lab work just weeks before final exams.In what would be the nation's largest strike of academic workers, four UAW bargaining units representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, academic and graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others are set to picket from 8 a.m. at all of UC's 10 campuses.

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