# @dailycal on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DV2P-lwFSDl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59605548-dailycal-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-14T02:12:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Daily Californian (@dailycal) — https://gondola.cc/dailycal

## Caption

Hundreds of members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, a union representing 48,000 student employees, postdocs and academic researchers across the UC system, held a protest at the steps below the Campanile on March 12 over alleged unfair labor practices by the university.

Many of the hundreds of protesters in attendance were, or had been, graduate student instructors, or GSIs. Noelle Blose, a graduate student researcher and former GSI in the physics department, said she was driven to attend the protest after witnessing alleged harsh cuts to the department’s GSI staff.

“The physics department cut our GSI staff to one-half the usual numbers,” Blose said, “The workload for the intro courses is always the highest for any of the GSIs in the physics department, and these cuts functionally meant that we could barely run the classes. The discussion and lab sections were so overcrowded. We couldn't answer questions.”

Read more through the link in bio.

✍️: John Schultz
📸: Anjalie Butte
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#ucberkeley #dailycal #berkeley #strike #gsi

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