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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Harvard University, with its bajillion-dollar endowment (the largest of any university in the world), is holding an event to help its graduate students sign up for government assistance programs instead […]
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GC students testify at the last BoT meeting
At the last CUNY Board of Trustees meeting (3/20) our fellow PhD students Zoe Hu and Jonathan Hanon testified about the material hardships of being a graduate student including low […]
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Public workers in Germany on “Mega Strike”
Members of two of Germany’s largest public sector unions are striking for better pay, brining the country’s transportation network to a halt. Read more here.
The three co-chairs of the PSC’s Anti-Racism Committee resigned a couple of weeks ago, citing a lack of support from union leadership for the work they were trying to do. […]
