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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Graduate Workers Union announces intention to strike on March 15
Graduate Workers Union announces intention to strike on March 15 Princeton Huang / Staff Photographer The union plans to stop teaching classes and conducting research until members successfully negotiate with Columbia for their first labor contract. By Talia Abrahamson | February 26, 2021, 2:03 AM
Standing on the steps of Low Library, graduate and undergraduate student workers of the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers announced on Thursday their intention to strike on March 15. Union members plan to stop teaching classes and conducting research until they successfully negotiate with Columbia for their first labor contract.
Student-workers of GWC voted 1,833 to 77 last March to authorize the strike. The union’s ten-person bargaining committee, which is made up of elected representatives who represent each jurisdiction of the unit, called the strike. For the past two weeks, the bargaining commi
Weeks after student organizers at Columbia University announced a tuition strike to protest their administrationâs âflagrant disregardâ for proposed university-wide demands, Harvard student activists have not indicated if they will organize a tuition strike of their own.
In a November letter, strike organizers at Columbia called on their administration to lower tuition costs, increase financial aid, dismantle the campus private police force, and halt the Universityâs expansion into West Harlem.
If these concerns were not addressed, more than 2,000 Columbia students were prepared to withhold tuition payments and donations to the university, per the letter. As of Feb. 11, more than 4,400 students have signed a petition in support of the strike.
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Columbia students launch a tuition strike, saying the Ivy League school s online classes aren t worth the money
Columbia students launch a tuition strike, saying the Ivy League school s online classes aren t worth the money
Sarah Al-ArshaniJan 30, 2021, 12:17 IST
The Columbia University campus is seen on May 21, 2020.Rob Kim/Getty
More than 1,000 students will withhold their tuition if Columbia doesn t lower tuition by at least 10%.
They say online classes are not worth the price.
Demands include reduced campus police funding and better working conditions for graduate students.
Some students at
Columbia University have pledged to withhold their tuition for the spring semester and are calling for a discount, saying online classes are not worth the money.