Temple University Grad Students End Strike After Getting a 30% Pay Raise
"new agreement increases the minimum graduate student pay to $27,000 per year for part-time work, a 30% increase over the four-year contract, on top of tuition remittance"...
"new agreement increases the minimum graduate student pay to $27,000 per year for part-time work, a 30% increase over the four-year contract, on top of tuition remittance"...
The ballot measure would protect the right-to-work policy by adding it to the state constitution....
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"held a press conference Thursday to express dismay and anger at the school’s cancellation of their free tuition and health benefits"...
“My immediate reaction is, take your kids out of these schools”...
"Just weeks after the University of California and academic workers heralded historic wage gains in new labor contracts, the question of how to pay for them is roiling campuses"...
"UCWAZ believes that all campus workers in Arizona, whether university employees or contracted laborers, must be paid a thriving wage, not a poverty wage"...
"The dramatic improvements to our salaries and working conditions are the result of tens of thousands of workers striking together in unity"...
"Union leaders have said the strike could be the largest work stoppage the prestigious public university system has ever faced."...
"We are simply taking back what is ours. It is us who run this school."...
“Our cleaning contractor at Twitter was told by Twitter that they are cutting the contract”...
"This is one of the most striking examples of a resurgence of the labor movement that we’ve seen"...
"If they don’t get enough of a salary bump, they’re going to stop working for 24 hours next Thursday."...
"Joe Biden blew it"....
"We want to make our presence impact well felt throughout campus"...
"Strike coordinators say the strike is scheduled indefinitely."...
Good news: The strike won't happen until Nov. 8th. Bad news: I hope you didn't need any Christmas presents or holiday foods. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is doing the campaigning nobody wants Biden to do....
"the forces that want to undermine our unions are the same forces trying to undermine democracy and public schools"...
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