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February 28, 2018

University of Illinois Graduate Student Employees Go on Strike

Dawn Rhodes Chicago Tribune

University of Illinois graduate student workers went on strike Monday after last-minute negotiations over the weekend failed to end a protracted contract dispute that has lasted nearly a year.

April 14, 2014

Graduate Students of the World, Unite !

Malcolm Harris Aljazeera America

University of California unionized grad-student instructors lead higher-ed fight for fair treatment.

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April 4, 2014

Graduate Students on Strike

Members of United Auto Workers Local 2865 Jacobin

UAW Local 2865 has called a strike. For many grad students, the very idea of a contract governing the limits and conditions of our labor is a source of skepticism and even derision. This system is not an alternative to the working world - it is the model every employer would eagerly adopt. Far from prefiguring an emancipated society, the university offers a foretaste of the total domination of workers by management.

February 14, 2013

Tidbits - February 14, 2013

Published by Portside

Readers respond - The Persistence of Racial Resentment; Meredith Tax on Democracy, Islam and the Left. Response to Carl Proper (The Americanization of the United States); Prisoner X. Plus: Grad Students Take Action at UIC - Urge School to Not Break Their Hearts; Resources on Racial Justice; Role of Public Intellectuals - New York - Feb 15; Life of Eslanda Robeson - Conversation with Barbara Ransby - Chicago - Feb 19; Red Brain, Blue Brain - There is a Difference;

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