"Today’s strike at the University of California challenges us to think big about what a labor movement is, and what it should do. [...] Graduate student employees at the University of California, in striking against UC-led police brutality and against their employers’ support for the war in Gaza, are [...] reminding us of the labor’s movement’s best self, when it links workplace issues at home, with civil liberties, with police repression, and with foreign policy and the fates of other working people abroad. That’s what solidarity looks like."
For the record postdocs and academic researchers are also in 4811, not just the grads. We amalgamated 2865 (TAs and grad researchers) and 5810 (postdocs and ARs) last winter