The University of California (UC) reached a tentative agreement Dec. 16 with 36,000 academic employees that would boost their pay and provide more benefits, after almost five weeks of a strike demanding, in part, pay raises and other benefits amid inflation.
Resulting from the largest academic worker strike in the United States, the agreement would raise the minimum pay for both academic student employees and graduate student workers from about $24,000 to about $34,000, according to UC officials.
The union’s initial offer demanded that the UC more than double the base pay, but union leaders eventually agreed to let their members vote on the offer….