UCLA Academic Workers to Strike Over Pro-Palestinian Protest Response

LOS ANGELES—A rolling strike by unionized academic workers upset about the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests at various campuses will come to UCLA beginning Tuesday, May 28, as part of a second wave of union walkouts. Workers represented by United Auto Workers Local 4811 have already been striking at UC Santa Cruz in what the union called the first wave of planned walkouts. According to the union, the second round of strikes will start Tuesday at UCLA and UC Davis. The strike is “in response to egregious unfair labor practices that UC has committed, including summoning militarized police officers from numerous outside law enforcement to violently eject and arrest peaceful protesters at UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego; making unilateral changes to standards for employee discipline, free speech rights and academic freedom; and disciplining and suspending employees engaged in peaceful protest,” according to the union....