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In an Historic Show of Labor Solidarity with Palestine, UAW Local 4811’s Stand-up Strike Grows by 12,000

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The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz

Hannah Bowlus May 28, 2024

Twelve thousand academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis are poised to walk off the job Tuesday morning as part of an historic strike in solidarity with Palestine. 

The workers — 6,400 at the University of California, Los Angeles and 5,700 at the University of California, Davis — are members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers across the University of California (UC) system. 

“We’re taking this … unprecedented action because of the university’s serious, unfair labor practices (ULP), which really go to the heart of our rights for freedom of speech and protest, and the ability to take collective action,” Local 4811 President Rafael Jaime told In These Times ahead of Tuesday’s walkout…

About 2,000 members of Local 4811 at UC Santa Cruz went on strike last week, the first of 10 UC campuses that may be involved in the Stand-Up Strike. UCLA and UC Davis will strike on Tuesday, May 28. / Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images