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How a Hot Shop Burns: The UMD Graduate Labor Union Card Campaign

Sam Dee Washington Socialist
I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

When the Work Is PhD: Labor Struggles on Campus

Douglas Williams The South Lawn
To an outsider, the work that a graduate student has to do might seem easy. A bunch of people who get paid to read and write all day, yeah? What could be easier than that?

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U.S. Labor Board: Graduate Students at Private Colleges Can Unionize

Robert Iafolla Reuters
The National Labor Relations Board's decision on Columbia University graduate students seeking to unionize only applies to private colleges. Organizing rights for graduate students at public colleges depend on each state's labor laws. Graduate students have formed unions in more than a dozen states.
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