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Graduate Students
The Graduate Worker Unionization Movement Is Spreading Like Wildfire
Recent months have seen a series of landslide victories in graduate worker union elections across the country.
Public Universities Run on Underpaid Labor. Now Grad Workers Are Fighting Back.
From Temple University to Rutgers, the devaluation of academic labor has its roots in decades of neoliberalism.
Striking UC Grad Students Speak Out on Largest-Ever Higher Ed Strike in US
"Most of these student workers qualify for food stamps,” says UCLA doctoral student Enrique Olivares Pesante.
48,000 UC Academic Workers Walk Off Job in 2022’s Biggest Strike So Far
This is the largest academic strike in higher education ever waged in the U.S., according to the union.
Graduate Student Workers Across the Country Are Helping Each Other Unionize
The interconnectedness of the movement across far-flung campuses is fueling a cascade of wins in unionization campaigns.
Columbia University Student Workers Triumph in Campaign for First Union Contract
The strike lasted ten weeks, but this agreement is the culmination of almost ten years of organizing.
Low Wages and Exploitative Conditions Are Sparking Graduate Student Strikes
Whatever gains the striking union at Columbia University wins will be looked to as a model by other campus efforts.
Higher Education Is Exploiting International Students for Cheap Teaching Labor
Academic labor should be compensated no matter who is doing the teaching.
Graduate Workers at NYU Are on Strike for Living Wages and Cop-Free Campuses
Strikers are demanding better wages, better benefits and the eviction of the NYPD from their campuses.
Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back.
Some union organizers say that recent budget cuts were premature, premeditated, and in some cases, draconian.