by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 29, 2023 | Bargaining Convention 2023, Graduate Workers, Postdoctoral Researchers, Student Researchers
This afternoon, delegates at the UAW Bargaining Convention voted to pass the Resolution to Build Student Worker Solidarity, one of UAWD’s priorities for this year’s Convention. As more and more student-workers unionize with the UAW, universities are finding ways to...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 27, 2023 | Autoworkers, Bargaining Convention 2023, Graduate Workers, Postdoctoral Researchers, Student Researchers, Teachers
Nomadic employees. Expanding ranks of “permanent temps.” Different tiers of pay for the same work. Standard operating procedures for Big Three? Yes—and also for Big Academics, including many of the nation’s largest universities.
by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 24, 2023 | Graduate Workers, NLRB, Organizing, Petitions, Student Researchers, Support the Struggle, UE
UAW Region 9A Higher Education workers wrote a letter in solidarity with UE members against recent efforts by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to undermine their rights. Read the letter below, and add your...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2022 | Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, Graduate Workers, Student Workers of Columbia
After 10 weeks of striking, the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers voted to ratify a nationally significant contract with the University. Following a 15-day discussion period and a six-day voting period, the contract was supported by 97.6 percent of...
by Justin | Jan 24, 2022 | COVID-19, Graduate Workers, Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard’s graduate student union presented University leaders with a list of grievances about the school’s updated spring Covid-19 protocols last week, calling for free high-quality masks and expanded testing. In a letter to administrators last Wednesday,...
by Justin | Jan 19, 2022 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, Student Workers of Columbia
The recently concluded negotiations between Columbia University and its graduate students/workers, ending a months-long strike by PhD students, serves as an object lesson in how the modern, private university no longer embodies the higher calling touted by Bollinger....