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The Temple Anti-Union Strategy

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On February 21, 2023
We’ve talked about the Temple teaching assistant strike a bit already and it wasn’t the best run thing in the history of the labor movement. OK, well, there’s now a deal. Not a particularly good one for the students, but it’s probably the best they were going to do given the situation. But what’s remarkable […]

The UC Strike

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On December 5, 2022

While the University of California has come to an agreement with one of its three striking unions–the postdocs–the other unions remain on strike. Fundamentally, this is a straightforward i

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Class War in Santa Cruz

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On February 23, 2020
Graduate students at UC-Santa Cruz have been engaging in a wildcat strike for some time now and it is coming to collision with the anti-union administration led, of course, by former Obama Cabinet appointee Janet Napolitano. The basic issue is that graduate students simply can’t afford to live in Santa Cruz and the university doesn’t […]
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On February 17, 1992, graduate students at Yale University went on strike. This strike, one of the most prominent in the history of organizing graduate students, is a useful window into one of the most important sectors of labor organizing over the last three decades and indicative of the tremendous difficulty in organizing private workplaces […]
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