Banishment of over 110 protesters by UC Santa Cruz challenged in new legal complaint
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
Chase Lawrence•
Graduate student workers
College administrators escalate crackdown on students who protested against the Gaza genocide
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
Alan Gilman•
The lessons of the University of California strike and the way forward to stop war and state repression
The significance of the strike, and the police-state measures used to end it, are that they anticipate an even broader and more explosive confrontation between the working class, which is being forced to pay the cost of war, and American and world imperialism.
Bryan Dyne, Jerry White, Tom Hall•
UAW enforces judge’s strikebreaking order against University of California academic workers
The UAW apparatus is a critical instrument of the Biden administration, which is relying on the discredited labor bureaucracy to hold back opposition to US imperialism’s wars for global domination.
David Benson•
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Norisa Diaz•
Alan Gilman, Tom Hall•
Kevin Martinez, Norisa Diaz•
Tom Carter, Jesus Ugarte•
2021 Columbia University Graduate Worker Strike
Columbia graduate workers defy UAW, vote down sellout contract
The vote is a devastating blow to the United Auto Workers and the majority of the GWC Bargaining Committee, who endorsed the contract despite overwhelming opposition from the rank and file.
Genevieve Leigh•
What is behind the media blackout of the Columbia graduate workers strike?
There are fundamental political considerations behind the media blackout, in addition to Columbia University’s financial and public relations interests.
Genevieve Leigh•
Yes, Columbia University has the resources to meet graduate workers’ needs
The struggle at Columbia, like all struggles of the working class, poses the question: Who should control the resources of society?
Josh Varlin•
UAW isolates Columbia University strike, starves graduate students with poverty strike pay
The UAW is not a workers organization but an arm of corporate management that works to isolate and suppress all opposition to the policies of the ruling class.
Genevieve Leigh•
Clara Weiss, John Conrad•
Clara Weiss•
Elliott Murtagh, Genevieve Leigh•
Elliott Murtagh•
Read more about the 2021 Columbia Graduate Strike
After a month long struggle against their union and Columbia graduate workers officially rejected the concessionary Tentative Agreement pushed by the UAW.
2020 University of Michigan Graduate Worker Strike
Lessons of the University of Michigan graduate student strike
Throughout the course of the strike, many students admirably asserted that their fight was not only about the health and safety of themselves, but of the community as a whole.
the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
University of Michigan graduate students take a stand for life against profit
Opposition to the resumption of classes at the University of Michigan is part of a broader struggle of workers against the homicidal policy of the ruling class related to the pandemic.
Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president•
“A general strike is a must to stop this back-to-work and back-to-school madness”
Autoworkers support University of Michigan strikers
Like the herding of workers into the auto factories, the drive to reopen schools and colleges even as the pandemic continues to rage is entirely driven by profit interests.
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An Open Letter to Columbia Graduate Students from the IYSSE at University of Michigan
The issues being fought for by graduate students—a living wage, job security, better health care coverage and improved working conditions—are the same issues that confront students, young people and workers across the country and around the world.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at University of Michigan•
Genevieve Leigh•
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2020 University of California Santa Cruz Graduate Worker Strike
The lessons of the University of California grad student strike
Lacking any viable political strategy, the leaders of the UC grad student strike capitulated to the United Auto Workers, the same union teaching assistants rebelled against.
Jonathan Burleigh•
Workers must defeat the strikebreaking by the Democrats!
Stop the firings of University of California grad students!
Janet Napolitano, the UC president and Obama’s former director of Homeland Security, has fired 54 striking grad students for daring to fight for living wages and affordable housing.
Statement of Socialist Equality Party (US) Vice Presidential candidate Norissa Santa Cruz•
Striking University of California-Santa Cruz grad students defy UAW, arrests and threats of termination
UC president and former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano threatened to fire striking workers and demanded that they honor the contract imposed by the UAW.
Stewart Bernays, David Brown•
Norissa Santa Cruz—SEP vice presidential candidate•
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2019 -2020 Harvard Graduate Worker Strike
UAW capitulates to Harvard, shuts down grad student strike
The shutdown of the strike is a complete capitulation by the UAW, which exploited the genuine anger of graduate student workers over their exploitation by Harvard in a nearly month-long stunt that achieved virtually nothing.
Kate Randall•
Harvard grad student strike in second week
The UAW’s isolation of the strike is part of a deliberate strategy to defeat the struggle of graduate students.
Kate Randall•
Harvard University retaliates against striking graduate students
Several academic departments have informed graduate student teaching staff that they are responsible for reporting whether they are working, and that those who are striking should not expect to be paid.
Kate Randall•
Harvard University graduate student union begins strike over pay, conditions
The HGSU-UAW has made only token appeals to other sections of workers at Harvard to support the grad student workers’ strike and has offered substantial concessions to the university on virtually all issues.
Kate Randall•
Harvard University grad students set to strike over pay, grievance procedures, healthcare
Harvard officials’ hard line in relation to collective bargaining on grad students’ pay is in line with a recent NLRB proposal that would curb the establishment of graduate student unions at private universities.
Kate Randall•
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