Tiffany Cabán, Shahana Hanif, Sandy Nurse and Alexa Avilés
City and State
What we saw couldn’t be more different from the dire warnings of rampant antisemitic threats and pervasive danger coming from City Hall, Albany and the White House.
Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far.
After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.
The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract.
Teaching assistants from the Graduate Workers of Columbia University–United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW Local 2110) went on strike Tuesday (April 24). Union members began picketing after a 10 AM deadline the union set for the university to agree to enter into bargaining talks
"Graduate workers at Columbia University got a win Tuesday from the National Labor Relations Board in Brooklyn, which upheld their recent vote to join a union."
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