The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 14, 2020 UC Santa Cruz to Reinstate 41 Grad Students Fired for Holding Wildcat Strikes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of California, Santa Cruz, has agreed to reinstate 41 graduate student workers who had been fired in March as they carried a months-long wildcat strike demanding a cost-of-living adjustment. The university is also granting the 41 student workers an additional quarter of funding and a guarantee of employment for the upcoming academic year. .