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Speaker 1: A bunch of teaching assistants University California, Santa Cruz have

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Speaker 1: just been taught a lesson. Recently, fifty four graduate student

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Speaker 1: teaching assistants took part in a wildcats strike in order

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Speaker 1: to pressure the university into giving them more money. Now,

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Speaker 1: these grand students complained that their pay was not keeping

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Speaker 1: up with the high cost of living out there. Well,

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Speaker 1: their page just got a little lower because on Friday,

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Speaker 1: scool administrators took a page from the Renauld's Magnus Handbook

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Speaker 1: of Labor unrest and fired all fifty four of these

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Speaker 1: so called assistants. University president and Democrat Party icon Janet

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Speaker 1: Napolitano said the university was sympathetic to the assistance plight

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Speaker 1: and the pressure put on them by the high cost

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Speaker 1: of housing in Santa Cruz, but she fired them anyway,

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Speaker 1: She said, a wildcat strikes not the way for them

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Speaker 1: to go about getting relief. The U a W, which

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Speaker 1: represents thousands of academic workers in California, criticized the shock

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Speaker 1: in callousness of you see Santa Cruz. Crazy Bernie called

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Speaker 1: the firing disgraceful told the university to stop this outrageous

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Speaker 1: union busting activists are organizing demonstrations. They want classes canceled,

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Speaker 1: none of which changes a thing. Housing costs are still high.

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Speaker 1: The striking grad students are still fired is an expensive lesson,

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Speaker 1: but thankfully, with the Trump economy doing so well, they

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Speaker 1: should be able to find other jobs at universities that

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Speaker 1: may actually be worth working at.