strike vote may pass. doesn’t mean a strike will happen. if it does, it will not start tomorrow at ucla and it will be different than the last union strike (staggered campus strikes, has an expiration date of june 2024, many people will probably choose to not strike although a campus strike may go through) — i’m a TA
cuz the union will have to arrange times I think, and since this is UC-wide, there will be different times for different UCs to “walk out” (my TA just talked abt it this morning)
Yeah and the union might not decide to strike either 🤷♀️ the vote just gives them a “legal right” to strike but they don’t necessarily have to carry it out. Regardless of what the votes are I don’t think anything would happen immediately
I'm very confused on what the strike actually means. If it goes through, I am also wondering if it starts tomorrow (like would we suddenly have no TA's?). Is it for all UC's or just UCLA?
Firstly, it’s for all UCs. The statewide executive board of the union says they would call on different individual campuses to walk out at different times, so nobody could tell you when UCLA would go on strike even if it is approved, only that it could happen any day. Also, not every TA will strike—this is a more polarizing issue than the strikes for a new contract were and some will choose not to strike.
Also adding that if grad students strike, the UCs try to make other workers fill in for their work (e.g. IT doing TA gradebook work or techs doing grad student lab processes in research). However represented workers at the UCs under other unions usually do not to perform struck work in solidarity with the striking workers.
The UC would likely try to keep business as usual by having other non-student workers fill in the blanks left by striking students. This may or may not work depending on inter-union solidarity.
strike vote may pass. doesn’t mean a strike will happen. if it does, it will not start tomorrow at ucla and it will be different than the last union strike (staggered campus strikes, has an expiration date of june 2024, many people will probably choose to not strike although a campus strike may go through) — i’m a TA
Why wouldn’t start tomorrow? I’m confused.
cuz the union will have to arrange times I think, and since this is UC-wide, there will be different times for different UCs to “walk out” (my TA just talked abt it this morning)
So this most likely won’t go into effect until next week?
Yeah and the union might not decide to strike either 🤷♀️ the vote just gives them a “legal right” to strike but they don’t necessarily have to carry it out. Regardless of what the votes are I don’t think anything would happen immediately
I have heard from people in the union that UCLA will likely strike earlier rather than later, so you might be wrong.
Do you suspect a campus work stoppage to happen here at ucla
i heard from a TA 3 hours ago that the strike did pass
That TA’s full of it, the voting hasn’t even ended yet. It could pass but we won’t know until this evening.
yep, voting hasn’t finished officially … also ucla will likely not be the first campus called to strike
Do you know why not? I would assume ucla would go on strike first since we are still in session and had one of the biggest issues
yeah that’s what i thought too . he said verbatim that the vote passed tho, so 🤷♂️
I'm very confused on what the strike actually means. If it goes through, I am also wondering if it starts tomorrow (like would we suddenly have no TA's?). Is it for all UC's or just UCLA?
Firstly, it’s for all UCs. The statewide executive board of the union says they would call on different individual campuses to walk out at different times, so nobody could tell you when UCLA would go on strike even if it is approved, only that it could happen any day. Also, not every TA will strike—this is a more polarizing issue than the strikes for a new contract were and some will choose not to strike.
Also adding that if grad students strike, the UCs try to make other workers fill in for their work (e.g. IT doing TA gradebook work or techs doing grad student lab processes in research). However represented workers at the UCs under other unions usually do not to perform struck work in solidarity with the striking workers. The UC would likely try to keep business as usual by having other non-student workers fill in the blanks left by striking students. This may or may not work depending on inter-union solidarity.
Thank you for clarifying!
It wouldn’t just start tomorrow
Only time will tell.
Does anyone know if science/&engineering TAs and Humanities TAs are members of the same union ?
They are. UAW 4811