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Tensions in the ongoing student workers’ strike at Columbia University were inflamed further this week by the leak of two emails in which Columbia administrators advertised spring teaching and assistant jobs to graduate students at New York University.
Columbia’s threats not to rehire striking workers raises the urgency for student workers to expand their strike.
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.
Striking Student Workers of Columbia University in New York City set up a picket line Dec. 8 and declared a shutdown at the school. Their signs informed those unfamiliar with strikes: “Picket line means don’t cross!” Honoring the picket line meant no crossing to go to classes and no entry…
After administrators sent an email saying that students who remained on strike after Friday were not guaranteed jobs next term, union members turned up the heat.