Over 100 Northwestern University Graduate Workers union members marched from The Arch to the Rebecca Crown Center as part of a “March for Fair Funding” on Thursday. The demonstration comes after some rising sixth and seventh-year graduate workers said University administration informed them earlier in May that Advanced Student Quarter funding, an internal fellowship offered.
Dear President Schill, Provost Hagerty, Dean Mayo and Dean Randolph, “Northwestern deeply values the contributions that graduate students make to its research and teaching missions” — this is your purported stance toward graduate workers that you have reiterated time and again. Yet, upper-year graduate workers are currently being denied the ability to work and do.
Recently, Northwestern University Graduate Workers reached a Tentative Agreement with the NU administration after garnering over 2,000 signatures on a strike pledge from graduate workers. This first-ever agreement aims to improve grad workers’ overall working conditions. Among NUGW’s significant victories is the establishment of a robust grievance procedure, which provides new protections against discrimination, harassment.
We are three caregivers and graduate workers at Northwestern University. We grew up in the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the U.S. We have one, two and three kids (aged 1.5 to 16 years old) — which is lots of fun, but leaves little time to spare. Our schedules revolve around drop-offs and pick-ups, cooking, cleaning.
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