The University of California strike began on 14 November last year and ended six weeks later.Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty
Research has resumed across the University of California (UC) system, following a breakthrough in negotiations late last month that brought the largest higher-education strike in US history to a close. Tens of thousands of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other academic staff are heading back to work with higher wages and more benefits because of the strike, but that’s not all: the revolt has injected fresh momentum into a growing unionization movement at university campuses across the United States.
Thousands of academics strike in California: how is research affected?
“This shows that massive strikes in higher education are possible, and that people can win significant improvements in their working conditions,” says Rebecca…
