Columbia University graduate workers begin strike for better working and living conditions Today over 3,000 student workers at Columbia University in New York City are going on strike after more than two years of unsuccessful negotiations with the administration over the college’s first graduate student labor contract. The struggle comes more than four years after student workers voted to unionize, forming the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW). It comes on the heels of a graduate student worker strike just last year, organized against the university’s inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. View of Columbia University (credit: Subhamoy Pal, Creative Commons)