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Undergraduate workers are winning collective bargaining rights, making student unions increasingly common. They’re driven by the pandemic, pro-union sentiment and each other. Campus labor activism and union organizing have exploded in recent years, engaging everyone from graduate students and adjunct faculty to academic department staffers and librarians.
If the Oregon workers are successful, they believe they will be the nation’s largest undergraduate student union at a public university.
ASUO has controlled the incidental fee â a sum students pay when they enroll in courses that ASUO then allocates to a number of programs, primarily through its major finance committees â since 1970. Currently, the sum of this fee stands at roughly $17 million, with students paying $271.75 for each academic term of the 2020-21 school year. This year, ASUOâs surplus is abnormally high; even after paying off its deficit, it has $917,542 available for allocation as of the most recent senate meeting on Nov. 18. Under the ASUO constitution, the senate has the power to ask University ...