How to support the largest academic labor strike in US history

As 48,000 academic workers enter the third week of this historic strike, support is urgently needed.

Here are ways to help:

For UC Faculty:

• The most impactful act you can take is to honor the picket line and sign the UC Faculty Pledge of Solidarity with UC Academic Workers’ Strike. Join distinguished colleagues such as Angela Davis, Cherrie Moraga, Howard Winant, Robin D. G. Kelley, Frank Wilderson, Judith Butler, Karen Barad, and more than 200 others in pledging to withhold faculty labor—including grades—until the strike is over. Only through such solidarity can faculty and strikers collectively bring the gears of the neoliberal edu-factory to a grinding halt, thus providing the crucial structural leverage needed to bring UC to the table to bargain fairly and urgently.
• Share the Pledge with your UC colleagues: https://sites.google.com/view/ucfacultypledgeofsolidarity/home
• Build undergraduate solidarity by teaching students the structural urgency behind the strike (UAW Teach-In slideshow)
• Concerned about withholding grades or replacing struck labor? See CUFCA’s FAQs and Additional FAQs re: Grading

For UC undergraduate students: here is a link to a template letter you can customize to ask your professor to cancel class and honor the strike.

For everyone:

• consider donating to the UAW-UC Academic Workers Strike Support and Hardship Fund.
• Join us on the picket line! https://www.fairucnow.org/picket/

More information available at FairUCNow.org.