The largest college strike in American history
| Tens of thousands of professors of America's largest state university started the largest university strike in the history of this country. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency, about 30 thousand professors of “California State University”, the largest state university in America, started a strike for five days in all branches of this university from Monday in protest of the conditions have implemented their work and rights.
According to “Anatolia News Agency”, this strike has affected the educational programs of about 460,000 students who are studying in 23 branches of California State University. California State University is the largest public university system in the United States. He is working in 23 branches of this university, explaining the reason for this strike in a statement: “We are trying to negotiate about the welfare of members, the safety of university branches, appropriate work pressure, maternity leave, sufficient and humane, wages commensurate with living expenses. and creating a minimum tolerable salary standard for the lowest paid professors. maintain the status quo while this situation does not work for most of the professors, employees and students of this university.”
In order to move forward, we must improve the working conditions of university professors and the educational conditions of students.”
According to “New York Times”, “Ken Jacobs”, head of the Berkeley Labor Research and Education Center, Affiliated with the University of California, this strike represents two trends at the national level among employees and workers: an increase in strikes on a large scale, such as the 2023 strikes of Hollywood actors and writers and members of the auto industry workers’ union, and especially strikes in the education sector.
Last March, university employees in Los Angeles, USA, launched a big strike, and in May, university professors in Oakland went on strike for about two weeks.
Jacobs continued that dissatisfaction among university professors in America shows that universities have become increasingly reliant on part-time and very low-paid professors. Workers across industries in America are now struggling with wages that do not keep pace with high inflation and rising household and living costs.
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