Ellen von zur Muehlen & Daniel Delgado at People’s World reports thousands of Academic Workers employed at California universities joined a nationwide day of action last week to protest the Trump Administration’s slashing of research and education funding. The cuts threaten deadly consequences for Working Class People. Hundreds of Members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811, which represents Academic Workers at the University of California (UC), marched from UCLA’s Campus to the Westwood Federal Building. Across town, other UAW Locals representing Academic Workers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Caltech, turned out to rally at the Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building. This local manifestation of the nationwide Kill the Cuts action, sponsored by a coalition of Labor Unions, patients and patient advocates, aimed “to raise awareness and put pressure on Elected Representatives to fight back against Trump’s attacks on research, health care and higher education.” “Trump’s attacks on National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Department of Education jeopardize medical progress in areas like cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, while threatening the jobs of researchers across the country,” a posting on the group’s website said.

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