'The UC strike is not just an effort to raise thousands of academic workers out of near poverty. It's a movement whose success requires a reversal of the austerity that has subverted public higher education across America.'
These second-class workers reflect the same second-class system America has created throughout our labor market.
Whenever you read that striking workers are causing harmful disruptions, note the implied bias, and consider that the status quo before the strike might have been even more harmful and disruptive to a large number of people. Last Friday, the University and the union representing tens of thousands of its striking academic workers agreed to ask an independent mediator to intervene.
These second-class workers reflect the same second-class system America has created throughout our labor market, and for the same reason: Employers want to pay as little as possible, and have maximum flexibility.
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