Fifteen months after its own strike, the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Automobile Workers has thrown its support behind another student strike â this time, at Columbia University.
Student workers at Harvard said they have taken to social media, donated to a strike fund, and picketed â both virtually and in-person â as the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Automobile Workers went on strike Monday.
Ege Yumusak â16, a member of HGSU-UAW, also sent a union-wide email in support of the GWC-UAW, which began its strike after two years of bargaining without a contract.
âText your friends at Columbia, follow them and tweet in support, tell them that we are one union (#1u) in solidarity, because weâre counting on them to win a strong contract,â she wrote. âAs student workers, we must support each other in order to push our movement forward.â