UCLA academic workers go on strike in support of pro-Palestinian protests

Strikers demand amnesty for grad students and workers who were arrested or faced discipline for protesting Israel-Gaza war

Discord from last month's mob attack on pro-Palestinian student activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) flared again on Tuesday as academic workers staged a strike on campus protesting UCLA's response to the violence.

Unionized academic researchers, graduate teaching assistants and post-doctoral scholars at UCLA walked off the job over what they regard as unfair labor practices in the university's handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in recent weeks, organizers said.