The four-day rolling walkout of professors and other workers this week at multiple California State University campuses is significant in its own right. But it also has the distinct aura of prelude.
“I have a feeling that we’re going to head to a statewide strike,” said Leda Ramos, a lecturer and faculty organizer at CSU Los Angeles. “The corporatization, the outsourcing, paring down, looking at labor as dispensable — it’s a hydra-headed thing. This is a monster that just keeps growing.”
