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SOURCE: TeenVogue
3/22/2023
Graduate Student Strikes Fight Back Against Decades of Austerity, Seek to Revive Opportunity
Participants in these actions explain that the goal isn't only pay and benefits for graduate student workers, but returning public higher education to a state of accessibility for millions of students and opportunity for millions of workers after decades of budget cuts and privatization.
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SOURCE: Nature
1/11/2023
UC Strike is Energizing a Movement of Research Workers
Collective actions at the University of California campuses and elsewhere are influencing research workers to view the work that they do in the lab as labor.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/3/2023
Assessing the UC Grad Strike
by Laura J. Mitchell
Despite winning increases in wages and benefits, University of California graduate student workers still face the problem of working amid the rubble of a social contract uniting universities, students, and the public around the idea of the university as a public good.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2022
Is a College Progressive if Instructors Make Poverty Wages?
At the New School (as well as at image-minded companies like Starbucks) an educated workforce and a progressive clientele increasingly expects management's treatment of workers to match its stated values, writes Post columnist Helaine Olen.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/12/2022
Students are the Key Swing Constituents in the UC Grad Worker Strike
Withholding grading labor as students return to campus after the COVID years is a risky move but at the New School, faculty built some solidarity with students that bolstered their position. Will that work in the University of California system?
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SOURCE: The Baffler
12/8/2022
"Amtrak Joe" Leaves Rail Workers in the Dust
by Kim Kelly
Why did the "most pro-union president" in modern times push through a negotiated settlement rejected by the majority of railroad union members, and what would Eugene Debs think?
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
12/5/2022
No Surprise, Historians' Open Letter on Railroad Labor Dispute Met Deaf Ears at White House
by Tom Mackaman
One labor historian finds his colleague's offer of advice to the Biden administration naive in light of the Democratic Party's (and the American state's) support for capital over labor.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/5/2022
The UC Grad Worker Strike is the Most Important Labor Action in the History of Higher Ed
by Nelson Lichtenstein
The strike aims not only at raising the pay of graduate workers and postdocs, but reversing the austerity politics that have gutted California's public higher education and created a climate of precarity for intellectual workers in the system.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
11/30/2022
Railway Companies Aren't Simply Being Stingy: Denying Sick Days is Central to their Business Model
The regime of Precision-Scheduled Railroading (PSR) has yielded immense profits but cannot accommodate unexpected worker absences. The current impasse is happening because executives and stockholders refuse to abandon the system.
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SOURCE: Google
11/30/2022
An Open Letter from Historians In Support of Railway Workers
A group of historians hopes to persuade President Biden and Labor Secretary Martin Walsh to uphold railroad workers' right to strike and to intervene in negotiations to help secure a contract with sick day provisions.
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SOURCE: Jezebel
11/22/2022
Alabama Women, Like Predecessors, are Keeping a Strike Alive
by Kim Kelly
The Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama has been on for more than 600 days. Labor writer Kim Kelly links miners' endurance to the work of women workers, miners' wives, and other women in past labor struggles.
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SOURCE: TIME
11/28/2022
Can the UC Strike Remake Higher Education?
The strike is driven by the crises in both academic labor and housing costs, which make poverty wages for graduate student workers far less tolerable than they used to be. Historian James Vernon is one faculty member cancelling his classes in solidarity.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/29/2022
The Cultural Workers Go On Strike
A "black turtleneck uprising" of museum workers and adjunct professors tells us that brain work has become gig work, challenging cherished myths about education, opportunity and meritocracy.
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SOURCE: NextCity
11/18/2022
Will the Philadelphia Museum Strike Change an Industry?
Will the success of the Philadelphia Museum of Art workers' strike help push more museums toward paying livable wages to their workers?
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SOURCE: Defector
11/15/2022
48,000 UC Academic Workers Striking: You Can't Eat Prestige
"Without its armada of researchers and grad students, the UC system is essentially a baroque real estate scam." Those workers argue they deserve much more from the system in exchange for the labor that makes it run.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/15/2022
Once More, Railroad Workers are Taking the Lead for American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein
Railroad companies' profits hinge on inhumane scheduling practices—cutting the workforce to the bone and squeezing everything possible out of those who remain—that will soon be part of every industry if workers aren't able to fight back.
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SOURCE: In These Times
7/14/2022
America is Violating its Bargain for Labor Peace
By starving the NLRB and other agencies that enforce the terms of union contracts and labor laws, the right wing is daring workers to take more militant action outside the system, says labor writer Hamilton Nolan.
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
4/1/2022
Mill Mother's Lament: The Legacy of Ella May Wiggins
by Karen Sieber
The city of Gastonia has struggled to agree on the commemoration of the bloody 1929 Loray Mill strike, including how to account for the murder of pregnant union activist Ella May Wiggins.
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SOURCE: Dissent
3/28/2022
Baseball's Labor War
by Peter Dreier
Organizing the Brotherhood of Professional Base-ball Players in 1885, John Montgomery Ward asked whether team owners could treat their players as chattel through the "reserve clause." Today's players seem to be learning some similarly radical lessons from the recent owner's lockout.
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1/16/2022
Can a New Labor Movement Grow and Win with Direct Action Instead of Collective Bargaining?
by Lawrence Wittner
"In this time of growing corporate domination of the United States and of the world, William E. Scheuerman's A New American Labor Movement illuminates a useful path forward in the long and difficult struggle for workers’ rights."
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