Protests in Peru; Plus UC academic workers unions are divided on tentative agreement

The picket line outside UC Berkeley campus, November 14, 2022. Image by Ian Castro courtesy of UAW.
On today’s show:
0:08 – Javier Puente (@puentevaldivia), Chair of Latin American and Latiné Studies at Smith College, and author of The Rural State, about sociopolitical conflict in the Peruvian Andes. He joins us from Lima to discuss the latest on the Peru protests.
0:45 – Mark Woodall, physics graduate student at UC Merced and one of the 15 union negotiators who signed onto a statement urging members to reject the tentative agreement. He is a member of the UAW 2865 bargaining team representing Academic Student Employees.
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On today’s show:

0:08 – Javier Puente (@puentevaldivia), Chair of Latin American and Latiné Studies at Smith College, and author of The Rural State, about sociopolitical conflict in the Peruvian Andes. He joins us from Lima to discuss the latest on the Peru protests.

0:45 – Mark Woodall, physics graduate student at UC Merced and one of the 15 union negotiators who signed onto a statement urging members to reject the tentative agreement. He is a member of the UAW 2865 bargaining team representing Academic Student Employees.

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