Undergraduate workers are winning collective bargaining rights, making student unions increasingly common. They’re driven by the pandemic, pro-union sentiment and each other. Campus labor activism and union organizing have exploded in recent years, engaging everyone from graduate students and adjunct faculty to academic department staffers and librarians.
Student resident assistants who oversee campus life and who say their responsibilities have ballooned with time have joined forces at BU, Tufts, and Mount Holyoke.