There's a pretty crazy strike going on right now by the graduate students at Temple University. The best I can tell from the multiple stories I read, it is lead.
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 issue--the University.
I was genuinely shocked that the Trump National Labor Relations Board didn't target graduate student unions at private institutions sooner than it did. For several presidencies now, Democrats have ruled.
Need to congratulate the Brown graduate students for winning a union contract. This is actually a big deal. Private schools have been harshly anti-union. While Democratic presidents have opened up.
I've wondered for some time whether Harvard and Brown's relative acceptance of graduate student unionization campaigns wasn't predicated on their confidence that the Trump NLRB would rule that graduate students.
There's a forum at N+1 about yesterday's NLRB decision overturning the Brown decision and granting graduate students at private universities collective bargaining rights. Want to point you to the contribution.
