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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

this is Potomac Watch.

The University of California sues the United Auto Workers Local that represents graduate teaching

assistance and other staff. For what the school system says is an

illegal strike but that the union says is standing up for the rights of pro-Palestine

demonstrators is this a growing divide in the left that could cause problems for the union movement and

Democratic politicians like Joe Biden?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues,

Alicia Finley and Manay Uquay Berua.

UAW Local 4811 represents about 48,000 teaching assistants, researchers, and other staff at 10 University of California

campuses.

According to the LA Times, it is now involved in a labor action that kicked off about three weeks ago at

UC Santa Cruz has now spread to about six campuses including UCLA and UC Irvine. This is a piece of the statement from the University of

California System. Melissa Mattella, the Associate Vice President for System-wide

Labor Relations, says this is a blatant breach of the

party's no strike clause by UAW. It will continue to cause irreversible harm

at the university as it will disrupt the education of thousands of students in a form of

canceled classes and delayed grades. She adds that it also endangers life-saving

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