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After six weeks of striking, academic employees represented by United Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 and SRU-UAW voted to ratify the tentative agreements with the University of California on Friday — bringing an end to the largest academic workers strike in U.S. history. 

The largest higher education strike in history of 48,000 academic workers across the UC system has entered its fourth week.

Academic workers conducting a sit-in protest at the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, in the city of Sacramento were arrested Monday amid union strikes throughout the UC system.

In a historic first, the Berkeley Faculty Association, or BFA, hosted a joint rally with UC-AFT Local 1474 in solidarity with UAW Local 2865, UAW Local 5810 and SRU-UAW on Wednesday.

Many have expressed support for UC academic workers in their ongoing strike, including local organizations, workers and government officials.

Unionized academic workers have been out on strike across the UC system since Monday to protest unfair labor practices and continue to bargain with the university each day of the strike.