After nearly three weeks of strike, University of California (UC) officials on Nov. 29 struck a tentative deal with postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers that includes some of the highest pay and cost-of-living increases in history, according to union leaders.
About 48,000 academic workers launched the biggest academic strike in U.S. history across all 10 UC campuses on Nov. 14, leaving some classes without instructors and professors without teaching assistants to grade assignments just ahead of end-of-semester exams.
Prior to the strike, United Auto Workers—the union representing the picketers—had been in negotiations with UC leaders for months over pay for postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, graduate student researchers, and academic student employees—including teaching assistants, readers, and tutors—a UC Office of the President spokesperson told The Epoch Times in a previous interview….