How do you keep a picket line running all day? During the UAW strike at the University of California in 2022, academic workers developed their own creative forms of mutual aid to keep their colleagues fed every day. Committees formed across all UC campuses to distribute food, using donations from supportive allies and local restaurants or crowdsourced funds towards the purchase and cooking of meals. This menu comes from the “Kitchen Committee” at UCLA, which served meals to the picket line stationed outside of Bunche Hall. As members of the Kitchen Committee described, not only did they provide daily lunches for graduate student workers throughout the strike campaign, in the process, they constructed new systems of collective care and support rooted in solidarity.
This menu– as well as many others from the Bunche Hall picket line– are part of the UAW Fair UC Now 2022 Campaign Collection, part of the Wayne State Reuther Library.