UAW 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers in the UC system, said its members would go on strike at UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara the first week of June.

Police took multiple people into custody and cleared a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UC Irvine on Wednesday evening, more than two weeks after it was established.

According to United Auto Workers Local 4811, people will hit the picket lines Wednesday at UC Irvine, and also at UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara.

Police in riot gear arrested protesters at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had blocked campus entrances, according to the university.

University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students and other academic workers in the UAW 4811 union begin a strike and are joined by UCSC students for Justice in Palestine as they picket the main entrance to campus on Monday,

The University of California is asking the state labor board to put an end to student worker strikes related to pro-Palestinian demonstrations that broke out across the country in recent months. Why it matters: The union's strike is in protest of UC's handling of encampments where police arrested hundreds of students and employees at UC San Diego,

Police in riot gear from agencies across the Bay Area broke up an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators early Friday morning that had blocked the main entrance to the UC Santa Cruz campus for much of this week.