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Solidarity to public university workers on strike!

The Professional Staff Congress Graduate Center Chapter leadership offers our support and solidarity to our public university union comrades on strike at Rutgers University (AAUP-AFT, PTLFC, and AAUP-BHSNJ), the University  […]

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News Reclaim the Commons

Another attack on the People’s Commons

Community, we are outraged. During spring break, Graduate Center Human Resources administrators removed the Dirty Laundry #tendedero (clothesline) from the 8th floor Reclaimed Commons, a project which bore witness to […]

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Martin Sostre Reclaim the Commons

Sostre’s Back!

On Monday, April 10, Reclaim the Commons organizers (re)installed the posters from Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile exhibition in the display cases on the first floor of the Graduate […]

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News

Grad student workers at Syracuse University vote to unionize!

Graduate student workers at Syracuse University have voted to unionize with 95% of those who voted in favor of forming a union. The wave of higher ed. worker mobilization around […]

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News Rutgers

Rutgers Strike starts Today!

Rutgers University employees are starting their strike today, a historic moment for New Jersey schools as workers test the government’s response to public sector strikes. You can donate to their […]

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News University of Michigan Strike

Support striking grad workers at the University of Michigan

Graduate student workers at the University of Michigan are on strike for better pay and working conditions. The University has dug in its heels and asked a court to order […]

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CUNY May Day Reclaim the Commons

May Day Organizing Dinner Report

Last Friday, March 31, we had a CUNY-wide organizing dinner in the People’s Commons. About a hundred people from about ten CUNY campuses came together to connect, share our struggles, […]

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CCNY

Composition teachers at CCNY take direct action!

Last week, administrators at the City College of New York announced that they would be changing composition from a 4-credit to 3-credit class. This would effectively mean a 20% pay […]

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Reclaim the Commons

The history of the Graduate Center Dining Commons

Check out this awesome article on the history of the GC dining commons, going all the way back to the 70s when the institution was located on 42nd Street.

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Martin Sostre News Reclaim the Commons

We call on the GC Administration to reinstall the Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile exhibit

Over the weekend (April 1st and 2nd), GC management ordered the removal of Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile exhibition from the People’s Commons. When Reclaim the Commons organizers got […]