There's a protestor at the UCLA encampment who's deathly allergic to bananas so the encampment banned bananas. Some Zionist counterprotestors threw bananas into the encampment.

UAW here. Solidarity forever!

To my understanding they mostly make more than that in SF. UCSF is kind of a weird situation where they don't have undergrads and most people are doing medical research. As far as I can tell they'll actually be ending at something like 50k.

36.5k isn't a lot in Berkeley or LA either. The initial bargaining demand was for 54k. There is a group trying to organize people to vote no on the contract. Personally, I think this is foolish because we've already won a lot and a no vote probably delays things for like 9 months. The contract length is only 2.5 years, so probably not worth the delay for potential wins, if any.

Professors are in many ways management, especially for the labs that they run. A lot of professors are supportive of us getting raises because it means it'll be easier to recruit better students in the future. Other professors are unhappy because they'll have to hire fewer workers in their labs.

1. Unfortunately I don't have great numbers. Something like 450 faculty members signed a pledge of solidarity toward the start of the strike. There are over 20,000 faculty members total for context.

2. There were professors who came out daily to the picket line in support. At my picket line there were maybe 5 there on any given day.

3. Very hard for me to gauge professor culture.

My personal thoughts: I was very disappointed by the lack of professor support. A lot of professors not only didn't cancel classes, but they actually filled in for the TAs on the picket line. For both student researchers and TAs, there was an enormous amount of intimidation coming from many departments.

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