Labor unions, which saw plummeting membership trends in recent years, are seeing a resurgence on college and university campuses in the form of graduate and professional student workers. The latest university to join the unionization…
Topic: graduate students
University of California graduate workers end strike after 40 days
After forty days of striking, graduate workers at the University of California system agreed to end their labor strike. The strike led to situations, such as undergraduate students not having teaching assistants to help them…
Graduate student strike ‘brings stress’ to students at University of California
The University of California’s ten campuses are frozen, in a way, as graduate student workers continue their strike into the fifth week. Even the Associated Press (AP) reported that students are stressed because of the…
University of California graduate student strike extends into fourth week
Cracks are starting to form among students and faculty members as the University of California graduate student strike enters its fourth week, which happens to fall right before final exams for students. So far, about…
Graduate researchers petition to form union in California
While union membership is on the decline nationwide, and in particularly in the private sector, student workers are clamoring for union dues and representation in higher education. At least 10,000 graduate student researchers in the…
University of Michigan students ‘close to open revolt’ on coronavirus response
With almost a month into the fall 2020 semester at most universities and colleges, graduate students and resident assistants at the University of Michigan are “close to revolt” about the university’s coronavirus pandemic response and…
UC-Santa Cruz caves, rehires some graduate students after strike
After five months, the University of California-Santa Cruz and fired graduate student workers reached an agreement after the university fired seventy workers who went on strike. Of the seventy, only forty-one were rehired by the…
UC-Santa Cruz fires striking teaching assistants
The University of California-Santa Cruz fired some of its graduate students after they refused to post grades, which was a part of a labor strike to receive higher cost-of-living adjustments in their stipends.
Graduate Student Union in Illinois Calls Itself a ‘Sanctuary Union’
University of Illinois graduate student union now calls itself a ‘sanctuary union’ that welcomes all illegal immigrant students.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Separated Gun Owners from Rest of the Class, is Later Reassigned
A graduate student was reassigned from teaching assistant responsibilities after the student separated gun owners from the rest of the class in one of the lectures.
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