UCLA Expanded Strike Demands

The UAW 4811 Joint Council’s strike demands represent an important step toward divestment but fail to address the needs of many UCLA students and workers who have faced sustained legal and extralegal violence on campus. Further, the narrow focus of these demands on Israel’s current war on Gaza effectively normalizes the ongoing occupation of Palestine. At UCLA, rank-and-file UAW 4811 members have collectively and democratically developed these expanded strike demands in response to the limitations of the official demands, and in alignment with the demands set out by UCLA Students for Justice in Palestine, the UC Divest coalition, and UCLA Faculty for Justice in Palestine.

1. Divestment of all UC-wide and UCLA Foundation funds from companies and institutions that are complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide of the Palestinian people.
2. Disclosure of all UCLA Foundation and UC-wide assets and funding sources, including but not limited to contracts, grants, gifts, and investments. These should be presented in a publicly available, publicly accessible, perpetually up-to-date database.
3. Amnesty for all academic employees, students, student groups, faculty, and staff who face disciplinary action or arrest due to involvement in or support for the Palestine Solidarity Encampment. UCLA must cover all medical bills related to injuries sustained by academic employees, students, faculty, and staff at or as a result of their support for the encampment.
4. Cops Off Campus: The immediate removal of LAPD, LASD, CHP, and other “external” law enforcement from campus; the dissolution of UCPD and reallocation of those funds to support students, especially Black, brown, and Palestinian students; the exploration, development, and implementation of non-carceral, democratically controlled forms of securing community safety; the abolition of policing on campus; and the immediate termination of Rick Braziel and dissolution of the Office of Campus Safety.
5. A codified, grievable commitment to protect free speech and political expression on campus, including protests and expressions of support for Palestine and the Palestinian liberation struggle.
6. Boycott: Sever all UC-wide connections to Israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, and research collaborations, and UCLA's Nazarian Center.
7. Transitional funding that empowers researchers to reject employment from funding sources tied to the military or to oppression of Palestinians. The UC must provide centralized transitional funding to workers whose funding is tied to the military or foundations that support Palestinian oppression.
8. Chancellor Gene Block’s immediate resignation in disgrace for his profound disregard for the safety of UCLA students and workers since the start of the encampment.