by Justin | Dec 14, 2021 | Alex Press, Columbia University, Graduate Workers, Jacobin, Student Workers of Columbia
The 3,000-member Student Workers of Columbia work stoppage is currently the largest strike in the US. With unfair labor practice charges unresolved and tensions rising, Columbia University is now threatening to replace strikers with scabs. Read the article...
by Justin | Dec 14, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, News Republic, Student Workers of Columbia
For the last six weeks, graduate student workers at Columbia University have walked a picket line at the school’s Manhattan campus as they seek to negotiate a union contract that includes a living wage, better health care, and greater protections against harassment...
by Justin | Dec 14, 2021 | Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, Student Workers of Columbia
The picket line has brought its strikers friendship, unity, and proximity to that sought-after contract. For Tamara Hache and Niccolò Bigagli, it has also brought them love. Hache and Bigagli found themselves near each other on a picket line during the strike this...
by Justin | Dec 14, 2021 | Accident Fund, Blue Cross Blue Shield, COVID-19, UAW Local 2256
More than 20 union workers at Blue Cross Blue Shield and one of its subsidiaries are now on unpaid leave because they didn’t meet the company’s requirement to get the Covid vaccine.Labor attorney Shawndrica Simmons says, if a company has federal contracts, it’s...
by Justin | Dec 13, 2021 | Autoworkers, General Motors, UAW Local 2164
The second shift at General Motors Bowling Green Assembly in Kentucky ended late Friday and some 400 workers filed out into the night. But 20 or 30 remained inside the plant when, in the early morning hours Saturday, alarms inside the factory sounded. The workers knew...
