Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz are threatening to raise the stakes Monday in their strike demanding a cost-of-living wage increase.
The university recently announced new financial aid programs for the students, but also threatened to disciple teaching assistants who continue withholding student grades.
Organizers of the strike, say teaching and research assistants are threatening to not go into work starting Monday.
The university responded to KION Television that it is “extremely disappointed” that some graduate students are planning to continue to withhold grades.
The college said the lack of grades “can have a profound, and perhaps unexpected, impact on our undergraduate students.”
Possible problems include loss of financial aid, the inability to graduate, the inability declare a major, or apply to other programs including graduate school.
Strikers are demanding a $1400-a-month cost-of-living increase to offset the high cost of housing in Santa Cruz.
