The
University of California-Santa Cruz has reinstated 41 graduate students who had
previously been fired for refusing to grade undergraduate student work during a
recent labor union strike. The graduate students had been withholding the
grades of undergraduates as part of the strike. The university then gave them
the option of either turning in the undergraduate students’ grades or facing
dismissal. The school ended up firing 70 of the graduate assistants, causing
the pink-slipped students’ union, UAW 2865, to sue the school for unfair labor
practices. This eventually resulted in UCSC’s decision to reinstate 41 of the
students.
UAW 2865
subsequently posted a statement on Twitter celebrating the “historic win,”
adding, “Make no mistake: when workers fight, they win. #1U.” Tony Boardman,
one of the reinstated graduate students, remarked: “We have organized, and so many have
organized in solidarity with us (for which we’re so grateful) to win our jobs
back. If not for the setback of the pandemic we would surely have won much
more. We have won here, but our comrades are still being disciplined, and we
still can’t afford to live in the place we work. We say: drop the fucking
student conduct and get the fucking cops off our campus. And of course: fuck
you, pay us.” Of course. How touching and eloquent. Very fitting for such a
graceless age.
Boardman’s comment unwittingly yet
perfectly sums up Democrats’ attitude towards the “deplorables” in fly-over
country: “Drop any fucking codes of
conduct, defund or disband the fucking cops, and, of course…fuck you…and
pay us.”
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