6 weeks and counting: Graduate student workers stay defiant before Columbia University admin
The graduate student worker union organized a large protest on Wednesday December 8, and shut down two main entrances of the university’s Manhattan campus. Dozens of community members and workers from a host of different unions joined them in solidarity
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Despite threats, biggest strike in the US continues at New York City’s Columbia University
Workers are “ready to fight” after administration told them they could lose their jobs if they don’t go back to work
Solidarity pours in for striking NYU student workers as universities across US witness labor upsurge
The graduate students’ strike at the New York University, currently in its second week, has received much support from within and outside the university. Meanwhile, labor groups have taken up similar battles in universities across the country
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