Just weeks after the University of California and academic workers celebrated historic wage gains in new labor contracts, campuses are scrambling over how to pay for them, with potential cuts in new graduate students looming.
The massive and successful strike by University of California academic workers has helped energize an unprecedented surge of labor organizing among their peers nationwide.
Many faculty are now demanding more support. At UCLA, more than 260 faculty members have signed a letter opposing any move by Drake and campus administration to impose the costs of the contracts on “the already strained finances of departments, research centers and faculty.”, have already been told that no additional funds are anticipated to cover the higher costs of teaching assistants in fall 2023 when significant salary increases kick in.
The result of such “punitive austerity,” the letter said, will be a “reduction of graduate student appointments; an increase in the already high number of undergraduates per discussion section, and a correspondingly negative impact on course curriculum, undergraduate assignments, and grading; the weakening of currently funded research; and ultimately fewer funded research opportunities for graduate students.
“The systemic problems of the university are being left at the doorstep of individual faculty and departments,” said Toby Higbie, a history professor who signed the letter. “But you can’t squeeze that stone anymore.”
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