More than a month on strike from their jobs as TAs and researchers, hundreds of graduate student employees rally outside regents meeting at UCLA.
has disrupted finals week and stirred angst among students and faculty about term grades — converged on the UCLA campus Wednesday shouting for better pay and benefits and a swift end to the contract dispute.
Morgaine Mandigo-Stoba, a third-year doctoral student in the physics department at UCLA, stood among the crowd. She said she was energized by the demonstration and by what she feels are insufficient contract proposals from the UC. “This isn’t the end game, to strike forever. We want this to end,” she said. “But we want this to end on a fair contract.”significant pay increases so employees can afford housing in the high-cost areas where most UC campuses are located, calling the system’s current wages and benefits “unlivable” and detrimental to their mental health and capacity for teaching and conducting research.
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