by Justin | Jan 13, 2022 | Columbia University, Student Researchers United-UAW, Student Workers of Columbia, University of California, Workers World
After 10 weeks on the picket line, student workers at Columbia University are claiming victory. The members of Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers Local 2110 voted to end their strike. They will spend the next two weeks discussing the details of their...
by Justin | Jan 1, 2022 | Student Researchers United-UAW, University of California
After months of negotiating deadlock, the University of California system formally recognized graduate student researchers as higher education employees and thus their right to unionize. “Almost every student researcher I’ve talked to knows someone who has been...
by Justin | Dec 30, 2021 | Direct Elections, One Member One Vote, Referendum Vote, Revolutions Per Minute Podcast, Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, University of California
Check out the latest episode of the Revolutions Per Minute Podcast on the fight for a democratic UAW that actually fights for its members. Also, Student Researchers United-UAW discuss how a strike threat won recognition for their 17,000 member union. Listen to the...
by Justin | Dec 18, 2021 | Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, The Nation, University of California
Last week, after decades of organizing, 17,000 student researchers across the University of California (UC) won recognition of our union, Student Researchers United–United Auto Workers (SRU-UAW). Spanning 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, we’re now...
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...
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,...
