Harvard Graduate Students Union averts second strike with last-minute tentative agreement
The tentative agreement does not meet the union’s already inadequate demands and would enforce an effective paycut.
Source: wsws.org
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The tentative agreement does not meet the union’s already inadequate demands and would enforce an effective paycut.
In pursuing mediation, the UAW is preparing to sell out the strike of 3,000 graduate workers at Columbia.
More than 3,000 student workers are back on the picket line, after the UAW sabotaged an earlier strike this spring.
"We get characterized as irrational, but we're really just asking to survive in New York City," Ethan Jacobs, a philosophy doctoral candidate, said.
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