Nearly one year after academic workers signed a new labor contract with the University of California–San Diego, five international postdoctoral researchers say the university violated the agreement when they fired them over the recent holiday break—leaving them at risk of deportation.
Two of the researchers, Yu Gao and Suresh Madheswaran, told local news outlet KPBS that they believed their contracts under their union, UAW Post Doc Local 5810, required at least a two-year assignment.
