WEBVTT - Updates Episode 2022 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.680 Everyone. It could happen here a bit in a slightly 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.600 different way. Today it's like asynchronous presentation, and we're gonna 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.440 have some updates on things that we've covered. So I'm 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.880 going to update on the ongoing you see strike, which 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.280 at the time of recording is still ongoing, and these 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.160 interviews are recorded on Friday, you will be hearing this. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:24.759 If you hurt the day that goes out, you'll be 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.360 hearing on Tuesday. So a little more have happened, and 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.160 I'll bring you some more updates after the break. Garrison 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.559 is reporting on some stuff that they have covered, just 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.240 updating various things, and Chris has an update on the 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:38.839 mid terms now that we know a little bit more 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.120 about the results of those. So we hope you'll enjoy 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.120 these updates. We want to keep bringing you these stories 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.080 and not just sort of reporting them and then walk away. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.559 We are off for the rest of the week after that, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.839 so nothing from us Wednesday through Friday, but we'll have 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.160 something else for you next Monday. Starting to record, and 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.080 if you could start off by just introducing yourself, saying 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.040 your name, maybe what the when you're in something like that, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.920 and any like impertinent strike information would be cool. I'm 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.760 Amy con are usually your pronouns. I am a second 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:13.399 year a PhD student in the Computer Science and Engineering department, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.759 and I am on the bargaining team after the student 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.280 research for union. Hi, my name is Adu Engel. I'm 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.760 a third year in the math department, third year PhD student, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.120 he pronouns, and I'm on uh, the executive board for 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.480 our union new aw amazing, Okay, great. I'm James he 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.679 him uh And yeah, I'm a journalist trying to feel 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.520 like one. So you guys have been out for about 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.039 a week now, right, and you like, there was pretty 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.280 good energy today. We just finished a big rally here 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.360 down by the beach. People could probably hear the ocean 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.640 in the background, which is very San Diego. And I 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.400 wanted to know that how the first week ago and 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.200 how the energy was, how the bargaining had gone. So 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.360 perhaps you can give us a bargaining update because we 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.560 haven't really talked about that yet. Yeah, I can do 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.600 the bargaining update. I think that you see has really 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.320 been attempting to avoid us at the bargaining table, and 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.320 I think that we're are. Oh, we are constantly finding 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.280 new ways to put a pressure on them, both through 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.320 our bargaining strategy and through our on the ground organizing 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.480 at actions to get them to meet us in a 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.840 good faith the UM. Throughout the past year or more 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.520 of bargaining, depending on which of the bargaining units you're 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.800 talking about, they have done a numerous unfair labor practices 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:41.440 and other forms of illegal and unlawful behavior in bargaining 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.600 that have I just generally been stopping us from reaching 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:52.000 a fair agreement. And UM. We're on strike to show 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:57.639 them that we're serious about UM, or to not even 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.560 to show them, but to apply the pressure necessary to 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.720 get them to meet that's in good faith UM. In 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.680 the past week, we have made a fair amount of 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.560 progress on many non economic articles from various of the 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.920 bargaining units. Non economic economic is a blurry a distinction 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:22.480 that we think about UM in terms of bargaining and UM. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.560 And another thing on everyone's minds is wages, and there 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:31.400 you see has still not moved from their entirely unreasonable 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.520 a position from more than a month ago. For UH, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.680 the Student Researcher Union and the other bargaining units are 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.760 very are in a similar vote. So what's say, what's 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:48.200 the position right now, uh, there a position is a 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.880 seven percent in the first year, a three percent in 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.520 all the years afterwards, which is not that doesn't even 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:00.960 encount for inflation. That's crazy increase cost like and incredibly 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.920 unaffordable cost of living. It's basically a pay cut. Yeah, okay, Uh, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.520 So what are those non economic issues where you've had 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.960 most success? Do you want to talk about those two? Yeah? 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.280 I mean there's a bunch. I think one of the 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.960 big ones where we've shown a lot of success, and 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:23.480 there's one that actually we've made some progress today. Um, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.520 there's a lot. I think there's things that make our 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:33.839 union stronger, union access and union A security. We've reached 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.080 a tentative agreement on for most of the bargaining units 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:42.960 I'm pretty sure um uh for working current injury and illness. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.039 This is something that actually that you see was not 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.520 a budgeting on for a really long time for student 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.600 researchers that now we're hoping that we can actually reach 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.120 an agreement soon about UM and we're thinking that's likely 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.640 a personal a time off as another one that up 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.159 until now a graduate student researchers I didn't have a 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.880 legal right to take days off work, and now you 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:17.040 see has moved to twelve days a year, which does 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.240 this start. We don't think it's good enough, but oh, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.479 we're going to see if they moved to UH four 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.720 is a current plant, and as a bunch of other 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.080 smaller ones, like there's the access needs access needs article, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.520 there's UM I can't remember all of them off top 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.600 of my head. There's a bunch in that sort of 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.040 vein that we've made a lot of progress on UM 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.720 and and yeah, there's also some economic ones that we've 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.200 made at some progress on, like a transit is a 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.120 big one. But there's a lot of things and I'm 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.920 not sure how to summarize at all, but yeah, it's 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.000 very complicated, but there's a lot of small things, small 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.360 things that's good. Yeah, so maybe you could tell that 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.000 to get you to needed like you had a really 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.760 good vibe with your picket line. Yeah, totally talk about 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.520 what it's been like for a week. Yeah, I mean so, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.400 I think the week just started off very strong. So 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.880 we had great numbers on day one and at day 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.839 one we did a massive, massive rally with everyone on 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.599 campus who was striking coming right a little way now, Gonzalez, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.800 the head of the California Federation of Labor talk there. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.039 It was like extremely electric and I think for a 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.840 lot of people for the first time they saw just 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.479 how many people were in this together with them, and 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.320 that just you know, set the tone like we're doing 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.960 something really radical. We're fighting for radical change, but we're 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.440 all doing it in mass altogether. And and my picket 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.360 line especially, or I'm sure this is true many picket lines, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.719 but we've developed a very strong sense of community. We 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.080 do like communal meals that are cooked in like five 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.400 instant pods outside on the picket line. Um, we've done 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:54.040 you know, like various chill events like karaoke and trivia 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.320 and stuff like that, but we also get together and 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.080 do some you know, really militant actions. We shut down 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.159 a conference yesterday. We've like picketed in intersections and done 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.760 all kinds of stuff and it's just really cool to see. Yeah, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.000 maybe we can talk about some of the action zing 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.840 because I think and a lot of people in this 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.520 country still maybe have never seen or been involved in 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.880 a labor action themselves, and certainly they don't know what 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.520 it looks like at a university, which is a different 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.600 place from you know, a factory. Or something. So what 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.559 have you been doing when you've been getting up to you? Yeah, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.000 I mean the base level thing is we just pick 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.320 it in front of our buildings, so we have a 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.360 picket line, we encourage people not to cross and in 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.560 the hope of disrupting the natural flow of university functions. Um, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.400 but then they are also you know, the university have 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.360 some big events such as conferences, and now we pick 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.960 it outside a conference, and all of a sudden, avery 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.240 at the conference has to be really uncomfortable crossing our 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.360 picket line. And you know, if we're really loud, then 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.040 it's hard for them to do the regular conferencee things 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.920 and that kind of stuff. Yeah, I like that. I 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.560 want to talk a little bit about like what make 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.000 strike to work generally, solidarity right between people on strike 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.280 and people outside. So like we had somewhere from the 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.560 teamsters talking and like I covered the teams to strike 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.880 last year, did you want me the teams to his 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.360 refuge workers are on strike and Chula Vista and it 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.320 was great. People were bringing them food every day. So 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.160 have you seen much of that, like from other unions 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.360 or just from the community. Absolutely, yeah. I one of 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.200 the big community supports is undergrad support UM have I 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.119 pickt line, Like undergrads are just coming by all the time. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.800 They just drop off some food. They say, just wanted 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.040 to give this to you, and then they just leave. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.800 They just like want to help us out. It's super 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.319 cute and it is very uplifting for all of us. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:41.400 And yeah, you wanna. Yeah, I think also a support 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.040 from other unions and from UM other members of the 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.640 labor movement has been really important. Like one of the 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.920 really big ones is the Teamsters UM, like all of 0:08:52.960 --> 0:09:00.200 them UM sanctioned our strike, which means that they, uh, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.920 they've instructed all of their unionized workers to not across 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:10.280 our picket line. This means that tons of UPS drivers, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:16.679 tons of a Teamsters organized workers have been turning around 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:23.080 other vehicles when they reach our picket lines. And yeah, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:29.000 has been really inspiring to see the San Diego imperial 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:36.280 A County's Labor Federation agreed to to cut the check 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:42.240 for anyone experiencing acute hardship during the strike, which is 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.200 incredible and I think it really makes us feel very 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.040 strong when we have the entirety of the entirety of 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.320 the labor movement at our back. Yeah, it's good to see, right, like, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.400 especially um, if we like I'm a historian, and I 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.600 definitely spent eight years a lot of money here in history. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.160 And like when we see students who workers together, that's 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.360 when we see change, right like especially in you know, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.720 the last fifty seventy years whatever, And so that's, yeah, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.680 that's very impressive. I wonder, like, I'm sure it hasn't 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.720 all been like rainbows and unicorns. Like someone's talked today 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.679 about a factory member who drove the car through a 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.880 picket line, and what the fund is happening with that? 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.320 Can you You cannot name the person if you don't 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.719 want to, Like, I haven't heard about that situation. There's 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.360 a lot going on every day. I know there was 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.199 one motorcycle that nearly drove through our line. Who were 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:36.280 pretty sure as an abusive advisor, We're not entirely sure. Um, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.400 there's some good news. Actually, one piece of good news 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.839 is that we members of the picket line that I'm 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.760 at basically all engineers. And I mean I keep in 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.840 mind here that I've been told by a lot of 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.479 other workers in higher education they you can't organize engineers. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.160 And and this morning, I think over a hundred of 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:04.480 us marched on the chair of the Material Science a 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:10.680 department and she agreed to send a letter to the 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.440 chancellor in support of our demands, and then she did it. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.200 That's great, which is awesome, But there's also some crazy 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.600 stuff happening. There are some people that are really infuriated, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.640 um when they see the pick of line. Those people 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.200 we try to de escalate and let through. But overall, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.920 I think you see strategy and the community strategy at 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:37.280 large too. To overcome our strike is a lot of 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:43.239 background noise. UM. I think that the university's main response 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.600 has not been to crush our strike, though there has 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:52.080 been some retaliatory behavior from some advisors. The main thing 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.480 is that they just try to ignore it and act 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.640 like it's not happening. And I mean, we all here 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.040 know that it is happening. I feel like everyone on 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.920 our campus at this point knows that it is happening. Um. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.520 But yeah, that's sort of their approach, and I think 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.319 that's the biggest way that they try at a union 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.200 bust is they don't meet with us, they don't treat 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.000 us fairly, and they don't and they act like we 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.920 don't exist. Yeah, that that's difficult and it'll I'm sure, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.520 only get harder. Do you know if people are facing 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.840 like I know people have talked about like potential academic 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.920 difficulties and sort of academic consequences I guess for striking, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.360 which is obviously a concern when your academic labor and 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.559 your labor for the university is sometimes sort of blurry 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.520 or like people feel like their relationship is something that 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.839 goes beyond their relationship with the university. Yeah, totally. So 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.360 there's kind of two aspects to this. There are some 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.720 illegal things that people in the university have tried, such 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.320 as UM. For example, many of us work as graduate 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.600 student researchers. UM. We do research, it is our job. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.760 But because we're also students, we are enrolled course credits 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.800 for these research and you know, they have said that, oh, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.400 if you don't do your research, you're going to fail 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.280 these course credits, which is completely ridiculous, completely illegal because 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.600 this is a hundred percent over life with our labor, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.960 and we are completely legally protected in our right to 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.880 strike UM. But another aspect of this is that many 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.719 many of us are students who are taking very regular classes. Uh, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.720 and many of these classes are still continuing and so 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.839 for these students who are concerned about their grades in 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.600 these classes, you know, this has had to you know 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.280 take them away from the picket line at times to 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.880 go to these classes. But we've tried to accommodate that 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.080 as best as we can. UM. For example, in our 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.280 picket line, we've had you know, we do a lot 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.839 of milited actions, but we need time to rest. And 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.800 during this rest time, we encourage people to you know, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.240 work on their coursework together. We have this great community, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.760 let's use it. Let's use it to you know, get 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.599 their course work done, and so we can all be 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.400 on the picket line as long as we possibly can. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.960 That's great. Yeah, and it feels pretty nice to hear 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.880 its week. Okay. So in terms of like the hard ships, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.040 I'm guessing the longer year at the more difficult, it 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.839 will get right and and folks will obviously like start 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.760 to feel more economic hardship. And so I want to know, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.800 like I guess how you're preparing, and then I'd like 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.480 to know how people can help too, if there's a 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.560 place they can donate or show other support. Yeah. I 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:22.320 think when it comes to economic hardship, UM, right now, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.040 we're not even entirely sure whether the university is withholding pay. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.520 They have not sent out at testation forms. We think 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.960 that they might at some point soon, but of course, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.160 UM at the end of the day, that's up to 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:41.840 the university to decide. Um if or when they do, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.200 lots of people will face if a fair amount of 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.840 economic hardship. The u a W does have a strike fund, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.600 so all out of the u a W members on 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.520 across all the u c s in our union, if 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.640 they show up for enough shifts on the pick a line, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.560 they are entitled to a four hundred dollars a week, which, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.800 mind you, is not enough too. It's not a comfortable wage, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.640 but it's enough to scrape by. Yeah. Do you know, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.920 for instance, what someone living in grad student housing like 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.840 well Mirama will be paying in rent in a month. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.600 Just to give people a sense of ill expense to yeah, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.760 I can tell you my experience. So I live in 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.880 Nouveau East on Campus and I pay about thousand dollars 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.120 in rent. But the year that I I started here, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.480 just after I started, they hiked the rent buy up 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:40.400 to thirty five percent in some units as an example. Um, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.320 even though I pay a thousand dollars in rent in 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:48.120 my two bedroom apartment. The other bedroom is which you know, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.560 it's crazy. And I think if anyone is interested in 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.920 supporting the workers on strike, especially if we do have 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.120 our pay with held, I would recommend you give to 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.960 the Strike Hardship Fund. This is something that disperses to 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:13.240 any striker that's facing any any form of acute hardship, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.480 no questions asked. And this is if you're interested in giving, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.760 you can go to the website fair you see now 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.840 dot or slash a support and that's where you can 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.760 give to the Hardship Fund. And I do recommend you 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.120 do UM. And that's the way that we're dealing with 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.160 economic hardship, okay in those situations. Nice. One more thing 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.280 I wanted to ask about, and just from my own 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.960 experience as an international student, was that, like, your situation 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.520 is extremely fucking precarious and you can lose your visa 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.640 for almost any reason. I wonder how international students are 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.760 dealing with this, and like how the Union is helping 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.840 to protect them. Yeah, so international students are actually quite 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.400 protected in the strike. UM. They have the same legal 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.240 protection domestic students do. And so namely, none of them 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.880 can be fired for this. Yeah, and because their visa 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.280 is tied to their employment, their visa is also safe. Okay, yeah, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.399 nicely has that Do you think people still feel that 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:20.119 sense of precarity, like, because like just to give an example, Um, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.200 I I was in real visa trouble and like that 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.640 was extremely petrifying for me. Right, Like, so I'm sure 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.479 people I'm just interested to know like if they feel 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.480 that sense sort of they feel like protected. Yeah, I 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.840 mean absolutely, it is. It is tough in many ways. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.800 Like I know one person next week instead of being 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.119 on the picket line, he has to go back to 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.359 the UK to renew his visa and that he's all 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.320 he's very unhappy about this. He actously had the picket 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.640 line at everyone. But yeah, it is what it is. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.320 And um on top of that, many international students come 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.520 from cultures where such activities are not as common. They 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.600 are very unsure about joining it. But like for the 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.679 last few years, we have been deeply committed to a 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.280 movement of all workers, and so we organize every single 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.840 person we can, whether they are domestic, international, we are 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.560 all on strike together right now. Yeah, that's very cool. Yeah, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.920 so this is the end of week one, hopefully hope 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.920 you guys get what you want? And what do you 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.480 have planned for next week? It's Thanksgiving? Yeah, I mean, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.480 so we have three days next week before thanks Saving break, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.720 and I think we are going to go all out 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.000 for those three days. Everybody's gonna use all the energy 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:31.160 they have and then have a cool break anything. Yeah, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.440 I think that's the plan. We're gonna make this university 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.679 regret not meeting us in good faith? Mega? All right, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.040 where can people do? Have? Flick social media for the strike? 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.440 Social media for yourselves or your unions probably one of 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.280 the easiest places as you can go to either of 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.280 the Twitter accounts for either of the student worker unions, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.760 like those are the ones that a tweet the most things. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.000 So you can either go to Twitter dot com slash 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:06.160 s r u u A W or two uh Twitter again, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.760 uh you a W to eight six five, And that's 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.320 where we do most of our communications. Nice. Yeah, And 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.840 if anyone wants any info at all, the the best 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.959 source of all is just fair you see now dot org. Okay, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.359 nice outstanding, Thank you very much, guys. So it was 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:36.919 very good. Hey Garrison, here, I'm gonna be giving a 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.920 few updates on some of the types of stories that 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.280 I've covered on the show the past couple of months, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.160 And I think I'll start by talking about Port Townsend. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.080 So if you remember, from the beginning of September, we 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.919 put out an episode talking about this wave of transphobic 0:19:54.960 --> 0:20:00.400 hate and organizing in response to this non incident at 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.240 a y m c A in the Olympic Peninsula, and 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:10.360 this spawned this massive organizing effort for these transphobic rallies 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.480 led by far right people and by turfs, appearances on 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.680 Tucker Carlson, Fox News, all of all of this stuff, um, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.320 And we were putting this episode out right before a large, 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.240 well what seemed to be a large upcoming rally on 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:31.080 September the third. There was not like actual like national 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.760 socialist fascists coming in from out of state to to 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.720 to join in on this, a lot of a lot 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.760 of kind of local turfs and far right people, and 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.359 the rally turned out to be kind of a bust. Uh, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.879 So that's some good news. They did not get nearly 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.960 as many numbers as they were expecting, and the community 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.760 response was very very strong, So a lot of people 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.200 coming out in support of trans rights and coming out 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.560 in support of trans people. Uh. Um, so that was 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:03.359 that was a nice thing to hear. I mean, and 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.560 across across the Pacific Northwest, there's actually been this wave 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.640 of of of like turf like trans exclusionary radical feminist, 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.160 like that term is kind of a misnomer, but there's 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.480 been a wave of of of kind of these events 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.800 and protests, well not protests, but these events and uh, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.119 these attempts at protests I guess by a few like 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.040 turf influencers. They've been going all around all around the 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.679 Pacific Northwest and Portland, UM, and a whole bunch of 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:38.200 cities up in Washington, and similarly, they have been met 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.119 with a pretty strong resistance, uh, a lot of local 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.280 people showing up and saying no, we're not going to 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.760 tolerate this kind of stuff, accented by the occasional pie 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.119 throwne in one's face. So that's the kind of state 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.639 of of of some of the anti trans organizing here 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.120 inside the Pacific Northwest. And I wanted to start by 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.359 talking about the story and the successful counter organizing and 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.920 support of trans people. Um. Mostly because of the mass 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:11.320 shooting a few days ago inside Colorado Springs and because 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:13.240 the other other thing I spent a lot of this 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:18.840 summer covering was this uptick in queer exterminationist rhetoric, and 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.480 that type of rhetoric results in attacks like what happened 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.000 a few days ago at queer clubs and queer havens 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:32.359 and queer gathering spaces. And I I think some of 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.000 the team was gonna talk about this probably sometime in 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:40.800 the future, will probably do something on it, but it's 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.280 still just so current and full of frustration and raw Payne. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.520 And the other thing we have talked about on the 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:51.320 show that this year is efforts from groups like the 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.720 unforc John Brown Gun Club and people who are willing 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.119 to show up armed to defend queer events and queer spaces, 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:04.240 and the use fullness of that is demonstrated here. And 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.000 the LM Fork John Brown Gun Club has continued to 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.800 do good work in showing up two places that they 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:15.800 were invited to to help hopefully help prevent things like 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:19.399 what happened inside Colorado Springs. And then of course in 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.919 Colorado Springs, it wasn't the police that took down the gunmen. 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.119 It was queer people from inside the place who were 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:30.120 unarmed who did the job of actually having to protect 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.600 fellow queer people and themselves. And similarly, since I was 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.320 talking about the John John Brown gun club in Elm Fork, 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.240 the other thing that I've covered um is relating to 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:44.400 those protests is the group Protect Texas Kids, read by 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:49.560