[3] At UCLA, teaching assistants, post-docs, and academic researchers went on strike in protest of the university's handling of a violent mob attack on pro-Palestinian students.
19,780 of the approximately 48,000 union-represented workers voted in the referendum, held from May 13–15, 2024, on whether to authorize the union's executive board to call a strike.
The union's counsel successfully argued against these injunction attempts in a defense resting on the precedent set in the Mastro Plastics Corp. vs. Labor Board (1956) Supreme Court ruling.
[8] On June 7, 2024, Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman ordered the Union to halt its strike due to it causing damage to students' education.
[13] UC lawyers brought the suit arguing the strike was causing "irreparable harm" to students' education before their final exams.