UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Graduate Students After Months-Long Strike
While I am somewhat (and really, only somewhat) in support of the grad students lobbying for better benefits, I am discouraged by UCSC essentially walking back any penalties for violating their no-strike clause.  They agreed to terms, and actively chose to violate them.<p>All this does is incentivize other similar groups to do the same, and learn that the longer and harder you go, the more likely you are to get what you want.  And that public institutions can be held hostage.<p>Add to that a frustration with a definite viewpoint-based forgiveness of the approach.   If students had been violating their contract for other kinds of less popular speech, I highly doubt they would be forgiven like this.   I&#x27;m not glad to have public universities making those kinds of tacit judgement calls.