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by pmoriarty 2303 days ago
Some background:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-s...

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Semi-OT, but I did a double take at this:

>Like the UC Santa Cruz strike, the UC Santa Barbara work stoppage is a “wildcat” strike, meaning that graduate students are acting separately from the United Auto Worker (UAW) 2865, the union which represents more than 19,000 workers across the UC system.

I thought that was a mistake somehow, but it turns out that, yes, the UC students are organized as a branch of UAW despite not being auto workers.

Union names these days are almost entirely historical.