University of California workers continue strike amid threat of arrests

Hundreds of University of California graduate workers and supporters strike in Sacramento, California. Photograph: Brontë Wittpenn/AP

Tens of thousands of academic workers throughout the University of California are currently on their fourth week of striking for a new union contract and the situation is intensifying amid the threat of arrests after direct actions by some strikers.

The strike of 48,000 academic workers, including graduate workers, academic researchers, postdoctoral scholars and teaching assistants, began on 14 November and is the largest in the history of higher education in the US.