Twenty picketers were arrested Wednesday for blocking traffic at UC Santa Cruz as unionized teaching assistants and tutors began a strike at two UC campuses. The walkout at Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley is expected to extend for a second day Thursday and include the system’s other seven undergraduate campuses as well, union leaders said… Caroline McKusick, an executive board member of the statewide union local, said UC has not made offers that “put academic quality first.” McKusick, an anthropology graduate student at UC Davis, said the arrests showed that the university system “would rather intimidate us than settle things right.”

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by Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times.

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