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Victory for UAWD Priority Resolution on Student Worker Solidarity!

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...

Autoworkers and Academics: To Quote Maya Angelou, “We Are More Alike, My Friends, Than Unalike.”

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.

UW Researchers Begin the Fight to Organize

by Justin | Jan 4, 2022 | Postdoctoral Researchers, Student Researchers, UAW Local 4121, University of Washington, UW Researchers United

On Monday, Dec. 21, a majority of UW’s 1,500 researchers filed their representation petition with the Public Employment Relations Commission seeking to be certified as a new bargaining unit with UAW Local 4121, which represents more than 6,000 Academic Student...

Wall Street Journal: United Auto Workers of the Ivy League

by Justin | Dec 18, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, Postdoctoral Researchers, Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, Student Workers of Columbia, University of California, Wall Street Journal

While workers at companies like Volkswagen and Amazon have rejected unions, Big Labor is winning with university employees. Last week the UAW was recognized as labor representative for 17,000 student researchers at the University of California. About a quarter...

The Union of Autoworkers and Grad Students

by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | Columbia University, GEO-UAW Local 1596, Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118, Organizing, Postdoctoral Researchers, Referendum Vote, Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, Student Workers of Columbia, The American Prospect, UAW Corruption Scandal, UMass Boston, UMass Lowell, University of California, University of Washington, Wayne State University

There are some ploys that non-university employers use to defeat unionization that won’t work with grad students. First, while Amazon may be able to convince its workers that they’ll lose their jobs if they vote for a union, that’s a little harder to do at, say,...