Is a Marxist faction behind this strike? Seems plausible, doesn't it?
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UC San Diego Students Say Strike Disrupting Classes, Exams
Authored by Micaela Rocaforte via The Epoch Times
Zero Hedge
Dec 4, 2022

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As finals week commences, students at the University of California–San Diego say they are feeling the impact of the largest academic worker strike in U.S. history, now in its third week.

After months of negotiating pay raises, 48,000 researchers and student employees across all 10 University of California (UC) campuses launched a strike Nov. 14, demanding pay raises due to cost-of-living increases.

This has left some classes without instructors and professors without teaching assistants to grade assignments ahead of end-of-semester exams.

Tarah Lachmandas, a third-year communications major at UC–San Diego, said that while faculty in her department supports the strike, they have adapted final exams to accommodate the absence of teaching assistants.

“Our assignments were not graded. They were just marked complete or incomplete,” Lachmandas told the Epoch Times. “And in another class, the professor removed essay questions from the final exam, so it’s just going to be all multiple choice.”

Tristan Fhaardo, a second-year chemical engineering major, said the structure of his classes were upset by the strike.

“Attendance in a lot of my lectures has gone down, since teaching assistants were the ones to [take] attendance,” Fhaardo said. “Assignments have been more lenient because [there’s no one to] grade them, and classes have felt a lot more jumbled and disorganized since the strike started.”

However, for Desi—a graduate student and neuroscience researcher on strike, who declined to provide his last name—that’s the goal.