University of Washington Student Strike March 4

At the University of Washington is facing massive budget cuts which means tuition hikes, cuts to financial aid, and overcrowded classrooms for students. It means layoffs, overwork, dangerous working conditions, furloughs, health care cuts, and union busting for workers. On March 4th we will fight back to defend our education and our jobs! Students and workers across the country and around the world will be striking on that day, responding to a call emerging from the mass movement against budget cuts in California. Activists in some California cities are even organizing to build for city-wide strikes and actions on the 4th! Here at UW we have tried rallying several times and it hasn’t been enough to stop the cuts. It’s time we up the ante by showing the legislators in Olympia that there will be no more business as usual on our campus as long as they try to balance the budget at our expense!