Professors Support Service Workers Strikes at UC Schools

The workers commenced the strike Monday in order to protest the increasing gap between their salaries and those of institutions' upper administrators. The letter directly addresses what the professors agree is an injustice done to the workers by condemning those "enormous disparities" between salaries. In the letter they also explain that they can't, with clear consciences, imagine teaching at schools that espouse democratic ideals in theory but adopt "reprehensible" feudalesque systems in practice. Eighty percent of the service workers at UC's have participated in the five day strike that ends Friday.

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