The teaching assistants had withheld fall-quarter grades while demanding a cost-of-living wage adjustment.
The University of California at Santa Cruz has fired 54 graduate teaching assistants after they refused to submit fall-quarter grades amid a strike for increased pay.
Roughly 200 teaching assistants went on strike in December while demanding an increase in pay of $1,412 a month amid an affordable housing crisis,Brenda Arjona, a third-year doctoral student in anthropology who has a 10-year-old son, was among those fired. Arjonashe lives in student family housing and pays $1,700 a month in rent. Her TA pay was about $2,200 a month after taxes.
Outcry over TA pay has spread to the other UC campuses as well. UC Santa Barbara graduate students voted last week to go on strike and UC Davis students have also said they will withhold student grades unless they are paid more.
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