UCLA and UC Davis workers to join strike over crackdown on pro-Palestine protests

Academic workers will walk off the job at UCLA and the University of California at Davis next Tuesday to protest the university system’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations, the UAW announced Thursday.

The expanded strike marks an escalation of a work stoppage that began Monday at the University of California at Santa Cruz, disrupting classes and pushing the university to move instruction remote in recent days. But the university system’s administration has called the strike “illegal” and has filed for a court-ordered injunction to end the strike.