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Earlier this year, a year-long campaign to unionize 6,000 non-tenure-track workers at Harvard finally went public. A model of member-led organizing helped make it possible.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—As another Midwest winter finally began to give up the ghost and another term was coming to an end for students on campus, graduate students at the University of Michigan decided to take uncertainty into their own hands.
Rutgers University campuses went on strike on Monday, April 10, 2023, after its faculty and staff unions finally got fed up with working without a contract—a position we’ve been in since June 31, 2022.
The walkout at Rutgers coincides with the ongoing strike of 1,300 graduate students at the University of Michigan and strike at three Chicago-area colleges.
Emboldened by the UAW’s sellout, the University of California has made a substantial investment in a company that profits from the maintenance of high rent.