University Employees Strike Wave Begins Amid Campus Crackdown
PayDay Staff May 03, 2024
Folks,
Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been tracking the growing threat of strikes from campus workers across the United States.
University Employees Strike Wave Begins Amid Campus Crackdowns
Across the United States, Palestinian justice protestors are occupying campuses and demanding that their universities divest from Israel.
According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the number of campus protests in favor of Palestine tripled last month. Now, university employee unions across the United States are beginning to strike.
Hundreds of employees at CUNY went on a May Day strike to protest crackdowns on protests on their campuses. Last week, faculty at the University of Texas went on an illegal strike in solidarity with Palestinian justice protestors.
At Dartmouth, UE members are striking over wages while showing solidarity with Palestinian protestors on campus. Their union has also called for the resignation of Dartmouth’s President over its arrests of over 90 Palestinian protestors.
Graduate employees at USC have filed NLRB unfair labor practice charges against the administration for their crackdown and are also threatening to strike.
Across town at UCLA, graduate employees are voting on whether to strike in protest over a crackdown on student protests on campus.
“Should the university decide to curtail the right to participate in protected, concerted activity; discriminate against union members or political viewpoints; and create or allow threats to members’ health and safety, among others, UAW 4811 members will take any and all actions necessary to enforce our rights,” the UAW 4811 Executive Board said in its statement.
For more, check out the Daily Bruin.
