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Academic Workers are once again escalating their campaign against workplace harassment and abuse at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Li Ji
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.
More than 3,000 student workers are back on the picket line, after the UAW sabotaged an earlier strike this spring.
Author Grad workers on strike at the Columbia University campus in New York, USA – 16 March, 2021. Photo by Rommel Nunez I remember the first time I attended a general meeting of our union bargaining unit Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) back in 2016. The small hall inside Columbia University’s Casa Hispanica was overflowing with members, while the meeting was carefully managed by union staff and volunteer organizers. The presentation had the feel of a TEDx event, with a question and answer session at the end, but no democratic space for free deliberation and discussion. Coming from ...
Columbia graduate students voice opposition to sell-out contract as strike deadline at NYU draws near On Wednesday at 9 a.m., the vote on a sell-out contract that had been negotiated by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Columbia University behind the backs of the rank-and-file officially began. The Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC), which are affiliated with the UAW, are urging graduate students to vote “yes,” threatening that a “no” vote could lead to an even worse contract, and promising that they would receive a miserable $1,000 summer payment if the contract was approved. This on...