A Wild Assortment Of Higher Education Unions

by | Apr 20, 2023 | Education, Strikes, Union Organizing, Unions

The United Auto Workers aren’t the only union beefing up their flagging membership by heavily recruiting on college campuses. This month, several other unions got in while the getting is good. Will this trend last? That depends on whether those sellout deals will actually wake students up about unions and their broken promises.

Until then, it’s full steam ahead for several unions:

  • Stanford University graduate workers are organizing in hopes of joining the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
  • University Of Pittsburgh graduate student workers began organizing in an attempt to join the United Steelworkers, which already counts the university’s faculty among their membership.
  • Syracuse University graduate assistants voted to unionize under the Service Employees International Union.
  • Wesleyan University food service workers formed Wesleyan Dining Workers United and will hold a vote to join UNITE HERE.
  • University Of Alaska graduate student workers are beginning to organize in hopes of joining the UAW.
  • Temple University undergrad students in Philadelphia are beginning to organize with the American Federation Of Teachers while following in the footsteps of the university’s graduate students who went on a 42-day strike.
  • Rutgers University faculty members and graduate workers went on strike earlier this month, which pushed over 60,000 students out of classes. The walkout has since concluded after the university came to an agreement with three unions, including the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union and the American Association of University Professors.
  • California State University undergrad workers want in on the game, too, after expressing disappointment in earning less than the minimum wage of the surrounding San Diego community and watching their grad student worker counterparts join the UAW.

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