The biggest strike in America right now is happening at Columbia University, where 3,000 student workers are fighting for a livable wage, health benefits, and more.
Columbia says it can’t afford workers’ demands — after its most lucrative year in 15 years.
Columbia University, one of the U.S’s most powerful institutions with an endowment of $14.4B dollars, is stealing the below-poverty-line wages of grad student workers and illegally punishing them for striking.
More Perfect Union spoke with striking Student Workers of Columbia members who are fighting back.