Hundreds of thousands stopped working for the day to protest their shared treatment by Israel. Many Palestinians described it as a rare showing of common cause.
Hundreds of thousands stopped working for the day to protest their shared treatment by Israel. Many Palestinians described it as a rare showing of common cause.
Graduate Students Are on Strike at N.Y.U., Long a Labor Battleground
N.Y.U.’s campus is in limbo as graduate students stop working, with their union demanding higher wages, more benefits and less police presence on campus.
The strike began this week. “They’re trying to bully us to drop our wage proposals lower and lower,” one organizer said. Credit.Mary Inhea Kang for The New York Times
April 30, 2021Updated 10:41 a.m. ET
When Marwan Shalaby moved to New York from Egypt in 2019 to start an engineering Ph.D. at New York University, he had $700 in his bank account. He figured that would be enough to get settled.
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Ms. Bruenig is an Opinion writer.
Has there ever been a threat so toothless, so risible, so obviously meek as the one issued of late to American businesses by miffed Republican senators?
“My warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics,” Senator Mitch McConnell recently told reporters. “I’m not talking about political contributions,” he then clarified, in case anyone had mistaken the bark for bite.
Senator Rick Scott of Florida likewise warned of a “massive backlash coming” for “woke corporate America”; meanwhile, Senator Marco Rubio reckoned that “the bill is coming due” for companies that haven’t fulfilled their “patriotic role.”