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Tensions in the ongoing student workers’ strike at Columbia University were inflamed further this week by the leak of two emails in which Columbia administrators advertised spring teaching and assistant jobs to graduate students at New York University.

Columbia’s threats not to rehire striking workers raises the urgency for student workers to expand their strike.

The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S., and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad student labor.

Striking Student Workers of Columbia University in New York City set up a picket line Dec. 8 and declared a shutdown at the school. Their signs informed those unfamiliar with strikes: “Picket line means don’t cross!” Honoring the picket line meant no crossing to go to classes and no entry…

After administrators sent an email saying that students who remained on strike after Friday were not guaranteed jobs next term, union members turned up the heat.

The striking Student Workers of Columbia University marched Dec. 1 in New York City. The strike began Nov. 3 and is the second by the student workers in 2021. They are represented by United Auto Workers Local 2110, a technical, office and professional union, which also represents workers at the…

In order to counter the United Auto Workers’ attempts to shut down and sell out their strike, it is imperative that Columbia students draw the correct lessons from the ongoing and past struggles.

The university told the students that those who return after December 10 "will be appointed/assigned to suitable positions if available."

Columbia University canceled 130 classes after unionized graduate student workers quit teaching on Nov. 3 in protest for higher wages.

Columbia University’s student workers’ union, made up of 3,000 workers, is striking for the second time this year, calling for higher wages and more protections.