Academic strike in California: How is research affected?

Research has ground to a halt across the University of California (UC) as tens of thousands of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and academic staff members have gone on strike, writes Max Kozlov for Nature.

Fighting for a fairer UC is important, says Stephanie Wankowicz, a structural-biology graduate student at UC San Francisco, but she worries that the strike could delay her graduation, which is currently scheduled for the spring.

The strikes have also generated more work for faculty members, as they try to keep classes and labs operating despite staff absences. “Of course I’m worried about my lab,” says Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, a biology faculty member at UC Davis, who joined the protests on 18 November with her children and one of her graduate students, in solidarity with the demonstrators. “But I’m more worried about having an environment of integrity in my lab.”
Full report on the Nature site