UCSB COLA Movement

August 17, 2020

UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Teaching Assistants Dismissed over COLA Strikes

By Katherine Swartz

Graduate students across the UC continue to advocate for a COLA, even as the pandemic brings challenges to in-person activism.

May 1, 2020

UCSB Teaching Assistants End Wildcat Strike, Submit Withheld Winter Quarter Grades

By Katherine Swartz

UCSB graduate students were the last of any UC campus to continue withholding grades.

April 29, 2020

UC Santa Cruz COLA Strikers To Submit Withheld Fall and Winter Grades

By Katherine Swartz

Around 80 UCSC graduate students who were dismissed from their spring TA positions are still without work.

March 9, 2020

“All Smiles, No Swipes”: COLA Protestors Organize Lunchtime “Liberation” for Ortega Dining Commons

By Holly Rusch

The dining hall occupation was an expression of solidarity with UCSB undergraduate students, 44% of whom experience food insecurity.

March 6, 2020

“Without graduate student labor, there is no light”: UCSB 4 COLA Rallies as Part of UC-Wide Black-Out Strike

By Arturo Martinez Rivera, Holly Rusch

The UC-wide work stoppage started early morning on Thursday; at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, protesters blocked all four entrances to Cheadle Hall.

March 5, 2020

In Photos | Graduate Students Block Entrances, Occupy Cheadle Hall In Fight For COLA

By Daily Nexus Photography

At each campus, COLA movements are urging faculty to cancel all classes and undergraduate students to walk out of any classes that professors didn’t cancel.

March 5, 2020

“I think people are just fed up”: COLA Organizers Call For Thursday UC-Wide Work Stoppage As Movement Reaches All 10 UC Campuses

By Evelyn Spence

With the launch of a COLA group at UCSF, all 10 UC campuses now have rumblings of COLA organizing on their respective campuses. 

March 5, 2020

UAW 2865 To Vote To Strike Over Unfair Practice Charges Against the UC

By Katherine Swartz

UAW 2865 alleges that the UC has committed multiple unfair labor practices in its response to the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) movement.

February 28, 2020

Two Days In, UCSB COLA Wildcat Strike Draws Close to 2,000 Supporters

By Katherine Swartz

UCSB’s graduate students are from the second campus within the UC system to go on strike in the fight for a COLA.

February 28, 2020

Breaking: UCSC Dismisses 54 Graduate Students on COLA Strike for Failure to Turn In Fall Quarter 2019 Grades

By Evelyn Spence, Max Abrams

Several graduate students who received dismissal letters posted screenshots of them on social media.

February 28, 2020

In Photos | UCSB Grad Students Begin First Day of Indefinite COLA Strike

By Daily Nexus Photography

Graduate students, undergraduates and faculty gathered on Thursday in front of Storke Tower for the first day of UCSB 4 COLA's strike.

February 27, 2020

A.S. Senate Passes Resolution in Support of COLA Movements and UCSC Strikers

By Max Abrams

The resolution's authors emphasized the need for undergraduate support.

February 24, 2020

Breaking: UCSB Graduate Students Vote To Begin Full Strike on Thursday for Cost-of-Living Adjustment

By Katherine Swartz, Sanya Kamidi

UCSB 4 COLA is calling for a monthly amount of $1,807.51.

February 24, 2020

UCGPC President Says Napolitano Meeting Is Not To Negotiate a COLA

By Max Abrams

Strobel described the incident as a “misunderstanding” and said that UCGPC meets with Napolitano on a yearly basis.

February 23, 2020

Graduate Students Occupy Cheadle Hall Until Midnight, Rally for COLA and University Support of UCSC Strikers

By Katherine Swartz, Sanya Kamidi

Graduate students from advocacy group UCSB 4 COLA organized the sit-in in response to a call for solidarity from UCSC graduate students.

February 21, 2020

In Photos | “UC, UC, you’re no good, pay your workers like you should”: UCSB Graduate Students Rally In Solidarity With UCSC

By Daily Nexus Photography

Live coverage of the Cheadle Hall occupation can be viewed on Twitter at @dailynexus.