Northwestern Graduate Workers analyzed NU’s financial report Tuesday while incorporating other employee rights organizations into the discussion. In a presentation led by Ph.D. candidate and NUGW Research Committee Chair Andrew Montequin, workers informed attendees of the growing disparity between Ph.D. student stipends and NU’s endowment. NU’s primary reserve ratio, which compares how much the University.
When Northwestern announced a return to in-person classes, KN95 mask distribution to graduate students was “extremely” uneven, according to Northwestern University Graduate Worker’s Communications Coordinator and music composition Ph.D. fifth-year Ben Zucker. While some organizations and departments gave KN95 masks to their graduate workers, many who wanted the extra protection had to pay upward of.
Last month, Columbia University’s graduate student union voted to authorize a strike. Mere weeks later, graduate students at Harvard University went on a three-day strike. There is a “real movement” happening with labor unions across the country, Northwestern University Graduate Workers Co-Chair Rose Werth said, and NUGW is hoping to capitalize on the momentum. Like.
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