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March 3, 2020 1 min

A bunch of teaching assistance from University California Santa Cruz having just been taught a lesson, recently 54 graduate student teachers assistants took part in a wildcat strike in order to pressure the University into giving them more money.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A bunch of teaching assistants University California, Santa Cruz have
just been taught a lesson. Recently, fifty four graduate student
teaching assistants took part in a wildcats strike in order
to pressure the university into giving them more money. Now,
these grand students complained that their pay was not keeping
up with the high cost of living out there. Well,

(00:21):
their page just got a little lower because on Friday,
scool administrators took a page from the Renauld's Magnus Handbook
of Labor unrest and fired all fifty four of these
so called assistants. University president and Democrat Party icon Janet
Napolitano said the university was sympathetic to the assistance plight

(00:44):
and the pressure put on them by the high cost
of housing in Santa Cruz, but she fired them anyway,
She said, a wildcat strikes not the way for them
to go about getting relief. The U a W, which
represents thousands of academic workers in California, criticized the shock
in callousness of you see Santa Cruz. Crazy Bernie called

(01:04):
the firing disgraceful told the university to stop this outrageous
union busting activists are organizing demonstrations. They want classes canceled,
none of which changes a thing. Housing costs are still high.
The striking grad students are still fired is an expensive lesson,
but thankfully, with the Trump economy doing so well, they
should be able to find other jobs at universities that

(01:27):
may actually be worth working at.

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