Short of the Long Haul (Part 2) // Notes From Below

Image: Grad wildcat strikers and the striking K7 Unit of AFSCME 3299 at the picket line (Santa Cruz, January 2020) Part 2 This assessment of the strike, and our activity during it, in Part 1, follows from an orientation we have developed to labor organizing at UCSC since the wildcat strike of 2019-20. This is often misunderstood or misrepresented both within and outside our union. We are variously depicted as irresponsible adventurists and occasionally UAW stooges. It is worthwhile, therefore, to state a little more theoretically the orientation that we have developed through and since the wildcat, and which informed our approach to the 2022 strike, before turning to competing claims about this strike. We have formed at UCSC a committed core of organizers who attend to all union and workplace matters on the campus, and who plan and coordinate campaigns and strikes, and who can, through a variety of means of our own making, operate entirely separately from UAW resources. We do not need

Short of the Long Haul (Part 2) by Jack Davies , Sarah Mason July 28, 2023 Featured in Correspondences from the Upsurge (Book) Inquiry Education Higher Education Inquiry An Account of the Largest Strike in US Higher Education (Part 2) inquiry Short of the Long Haul (Part 2) by Jack Davies , Sarah Mason / July 28, 2023 in Correspondences from the Upsurge (Book) An Account of the Largest Strike in US Higher Education (Part 2) Image: Grad wildcat strikers and the striking K7 Unit of AFSCME 3299 at the picket line (Santa Cruz, January 2020) Part 2 This assessment of the strike, and our activity du

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