A growing trend of union organizing among undergraduate student workers reached a crescendo last week when a unit of 20,000 student assistants at California State University voted in favor of unionization.
With approval of organized labor at the highest level since 1965, undergraduate student workers have turned to unionizing as college costs continue to rise.
It’s been a banner year for student worker organizing. Several new undergraduate student employee unions formed in the past few months, including at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
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