Strike continues as University of California reaches partial agreement with union

More than two weeks after nearly 50,000 academics went on strike at the University of California (UC) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory over pay and conditions, UC has reached a tentative agreement with academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars. The strike continues, however, as union sections representing academic student employees and student researchers continue to bargain with the university system.

The academic researchers and postdocs that reached agreement with UC represent about 12,000 of the workers who have been on strike. The remaining 36,000 academic student employees and student researchers are still trying to strike a deal with the university, according to Neil Sweeney, the president of the union of postdocs and academic researchers. UC student researchers last made a compensation proposal to the university 13 days ago and UC has not yet responded, according to the union.