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 […]
Category: News
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 […]
Categories
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 […]
Categories
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. […]
Categories
LA public school teachers strike
On Monday, LA public school teachers began a three-day strike as contract negotiations remain at an impasse. The 30,000 teachers, aides, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, and other staff are […]
After some fifteen years of fighting an organizing, University of Chicago graduate student workers have won union representation! Let’s all keep an eye out for how we can support them […]
After the GC administration canceled the March 15 Graduate Council meeting with short notice due to “space limitations,” members of the GC community still gathered in the Dining Commons at […]
The NLRB ruled, ridiculously, that MIT graduate students who do instructional and research work are not employees because “the compensation received by the fellows is not directly tied to completing […]
