The University of California’s response to protests and a strike by graduate teaching and research assistants has been by turns baffling and defiant. Not only has UC moved to discipline or dismiss some of those grad workers for engaging in pro-Palestinian campus protests, but it appears to be doubling down on a larger attempt to have the workers’ resulting strike immediately halted via injunction.
Its early efforts on that front have failed loudly, but the state’s flagship university system is pressing on. Denied injunctive relief twice in a row by the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the agency tasked with handling such matters, the University of California this week announced it will take its case to state court.
