University of California Academic Workers Ratify Contract, Ending Strike

Union academic workers and supporters march and picket at the UCLA campus amid a statewide strike by nearly 48,000 University of California unionized workers in Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2022. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Academic workers ratified their contract with the University of California (UC) just before the holidays, ending a six-week-long strike.

United Auto Workers—the union representing UC academic workers—announced Dec. 23 its members voted to ratify UC’s contract for academic student employees and graduate student researchers.