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Graduate Student Union
December 8, 2022
Tracy Rosenthal
The University of California Is Also a Landlord
If McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that sells degrees. Grad students are striking not least so they can afford to live where they work.
November 15, 2022
Timothy Noah
Don’t Laugh: The Striking U.C. Grad Students Have a Strong Case
OK, it’s not the coal mines. But you try getting by paying 60 percent of your income in rent.
January 7, 2022
Magazine
Timothy Noah
The National Labor Relations Board Is Finally Doing Its Job
Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel, is making sure Biden’s pro-union agenda actually gets enforced.
December 14, 2021
Rebecca Nathanson
The 20-Year Fight to Unionize Graduate Student Workers
The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor.
February 17, 2020
Andrew Schwartz
A Wildcat Strike Grows out of a Housing Crisis
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.
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