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We’re going on strike tomorrow.
NYU has refused to bargain with us this weekend to settle a contract before the deadline. So now the only way for us to win our demands is to go on strike.
Volunteer to help us
#StrikeOnNYU
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🎉 WE WON!* 🎉 We have a tentative agreement with NYU that will:
- Raise the minimum rate for hourly workers by 30% in the first year (from $20 to $26/hour retroactive to 2020-2021), up to 50% or $30/hour by the last year of contract
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A graduate worker saw a cop in
@nyuniversity
's Silver building today. When the worker asked why he wasn’t wearing a mask and putting workers lives at risk, the cop replied: “My body, my choice. Go fuck yourself." Care to explain, NYU?
#CopsOffCampus
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Our strike is over!
This historic victory is the result of more than a year of dedicated organizing, democratic decision-making, and collective action.
Thank you, comrades! ✊
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BREAKING: Our Strike Authorization Vote results are in and
☆✼★━━━━96.4%━━━━★✼☆
of GSOC members have voted YES to authorize a strike.
#StrikeOnNYU
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A strong strike wins a strong contract. Keeping workers out on strike means keeping them paid and out on the picket line.
A hardship mutual aid fund has been set up to support our
#StrikeOnNYU
.
Please, if you’re able, donate:
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GSOC is out on the picket lines and has some thing to say to
@SenSanders
!
┌──❀*̥˚──◌──◌──❀*̥˚─┐
T H A N K Y O U ! ! !
└◌───❀*̥˚───◌───❀*̥˚┘
I stand in solidarity with
@GSOCUAW
graduate workers at NYU who are on strike for living wages, affordable health care, and decent working conditions. We are fighting for college for all and dignity for the workers who make our universities great.
#StrikeonNYU
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Our new contract has now been ratified! 🎉GSOC members voted YES by a 99% majority to ratify the contract (1103 in favor, 11 against). We will be working on holding the university accountable to the new contract. Stay tuned!
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@itsbirdemic
@GunsonWildlife
@nyuniversity
We’re aware and we’re not happy. Currently in a rapid response meeting to discuss ways to support all NYU students affected and make demands of the university. Will update soon.
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- Guarantee 6 weeks paid parental leave
- Mandate sanctuary protections from ICE, CBP and other gov't agencies
- Recognition that cops are a health & safety workplace issue
...and much more!
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Solidarity from
@SenSanders
firing up the picket line!
We.
Are.
Going.
To.
Win.
Thank you, Bernie!
#StrikeOnNYU
I stand in solidarity with
@GSOCUAW
graduate workers at NYU who are on strike for living wages, affordable health care, and decent working conditions. We are fighting for college for all and dignity for the workers who make our universities great.
#StrikeonNYU
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- Create a new fund to cover out of pocket health costs, up to 700k by end of contract
- Expand health premium coverage to 95% for workers who don’t have premiums covered
- Double the size of our childcare fund
- Establish an international and immigrant tax and legal fund
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Despite the ongoing unfair labor practices strike by
@SW_Columbia
,
@ColumbiaUniver
has started to advertise “open positions” to NYC-area adjuncts, teaching assistants, and graders. As of December 13th, Columbia administration and faculty are calling on workers at NYU
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GSOC stands in solidarity with the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and with all Palestinians in their struggle against settler-colonialism and apartheid.
A 🧵on GSOC support for BDS:
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"
@ColumbiaUniver
seeking scabs for Spring 2022" NYU workers stand with
@SW_Columbia
. How about instead of looking to underpay other graduate workers, you just negotiate fairly with the ones you already have?
#CUonStrike
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“NYU grad students are not allowed to work over 20 hrs/week, but many report being given significantly fewer at a min. rate of $20/hr. That means that students, at most, are making $400/week, or $1,600/month. The average rent in Manhattan, where the school is located, is $2,995.”
Why Public Education Advocates Must Stand With NYC’s Grad Student Workers
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NYU has been stonewalling negotiations for 9 months. Enough is enough. Our bargaining committee announced a STRIKE VOTE starting 3/23. Check your inbox, make a plan to vote yes, and join us at the Strike Vote Rally on 3/23 at noon ET. RSVP: .
#StrikeOnNYU
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Thank you to the amazing
@illuminator99
for the public political art at Bobst last night. The entire community and city are watching you👀, NYU. It’s time to give us a fair contract. Do better, NYU.
#StrikeOnNYU
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If you're local in NYC + looking to support grad workers on strike, visit them on the picket line in front of Bobst + drop off or donate food, snacks, lunch or pizza!
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After 96.4% of our members voted YES we set a STRIKE DEADLINE for 4/26!
It's been months of negotiating for a fair contract & we're ready to put more pressure on NYU by withholding our labor for better pay, heath care, childcare & protections for intl students
#StrikeonNYU
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#StrikeOnNYU
picket line is on fireeeeeeee today, & growing & growing & growing.
PICKET LINE MEANS | DON’T CROSS
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Strike commitments are absolutely flying in and workers are telling us it’s *because* of Andy’s little sorrowful email.
@nyuniversity
whoever runs your PR must be asleep at the wheel 😴
Thanks though!
#StrikeOnNYU
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Join us on the picket lines!
Our strike begins tomorrow and we have both in-person & virtual pickets from 10 AM to 2 PM every day of the strike.
RSVP for in-person:
RSVP for virtual:
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Congratulations to our comrades up at
@SW_Columbia
on their new contract! An inspiration to unions today and all through their nearly 10 week strike!
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🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
Enormous thanks and love to
@GradLaborOrg
for picket line pizza
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
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Thanks to the collective bargaining efforts of GSOC organizers &
@UAW7902
, NYU grad workers TAing this semester will get ~10k per course (!!!!!) graduate labor is still v much underpaid + undervalued, but this is a HUGE step toward fairer wages. Organize your workplace! 🤑💪
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#StrikeOnNYU
Week 2!
Our strike is working.
NYU made concessions at the table because of pressure on the picket line. But, not nearly enough. They refuse to budge on hourly wages, health & safety, and more.
Come to the picket line today, tomorrow, and every day until we win
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.
@berniesanders
's College for All Act provides tuition-free public college for working families to address academic injustice, student debt crisis, and rising tuition. Hey
@SenSchumer
, GSOC stands behind this legislation, why don’t you?
#collegeforall
#StrikeOnNYU
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“Up, up, up with the workers / Down, down, down with the bosses!” Major shout out to
@GWCUAW
grad workers who came down to our picket line in the rain to help hold down the fort while our BC was bargaining & bring us sandwiches & good energy.
#Spreadthestrike
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NYU won't give us a living wage but they'll tell us we should learn how to pinch pennies?? GTFOH
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You have 40 minutes to get to the picket line because
@Dianne4NYC
is coming to talk about our
#StrikeOnNYU
!!
Get here! 70 Wash. Sq S! 1:30 PM!
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On May 1st, in the middle of our strike, we are reminded that our struggle is part of a global struggle 🌏🌍🌎 for fair working conditions. Solidarity has no borders! Happy May Day✊🏼!
Support workers on strike at-risk of financial hardship:
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We bargained with NYU for 15 hours yesterday, wrapping up the session after 3 AM. There is not much left on the table, but we are determined to win, and we will.
We need you at the picket line today and tomorrow: workers, supporters, community members, everyone.
#StrikeOnNYU
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Our
#CopsOffCampus
Speakout is underway on the picket line. Calling out NYU as the real estate company selling degrees that it is, with cops serving only to protect their private property.
#StrikeOnNYU
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This weekend, after 9 months of bargaining and no serious move from NYU, our union decided to vote on a strike. How does a strike vote work? How does a vote put pressure on NYU? A THREAD:
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Kate is a PhD candidate in the Physics Department. She is immunocompromised, is taking care of a chronically ill parent, has lost summer funding, and can't participate in research opportunities. She's calling on
@nyuniversity
for a
#UniversalExtension
& knows that
#NYUCanAffordIt
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Well said: Shut 👏🏼 it 👏🏼down. NYU can't pretend to be business as usual, when grad workers don't have a fair and just contract. The university cannot run without us.
Come join us on the
@GSOCUAW
picket line tomorrow!!! 10-2pm outside Bobst Library. We’re rounding out week 2 of the
#StrikeOnNYU
and we still don’t have a contract. What does that mean? Shut 👏🏼 it 👏🏼 down👏🏼
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and other universities to replace SWC-UAW workers to grade fall assignments and instruct spring courses. We call on workers to refuse to collaborate with Columbia University’s attempts to break the strike by Student Workers of Columbia (SWC). NYC-area educators and researchers
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TOMORROW 10-2: Join us at our picket line for a day of action!
@SenSanders
will call in to the picket in support of our strike, & we'll hear from
@DemSocialists
candidates
@alexaforcouncil
&
@brandonwestnyc
as well as
@nyuydsa
. Let's put the pressure on NYU!
#StrikeOnNYU
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Collective action gets the goods!
We won our strike and a powerful, floor-raising new contract with support, solidarity, & inspiring leadership on the picket lines from our comrades in
@nyuydsa
As a small gift, we got them union made & printed shirts from No Sweat Apparel 🌹
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yeah how’d that go over for you?
"The claim that NYU wrote to the parents of its striking graduate employees is a lie. NYU sent an email to its regular parents email list notifying them about the strike, as it routinely does with any major development on campus."
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NYU in 2015:
“If ever there were an instance where a strike was misguided, this is it.”
NYU in 2021:
“If ever there were an instance where a strike was misguided, this is it.”
🥱
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We are beyond grateful for the supportive letter from
@nyustudentgov
✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾and undergrads who have been outspoken about NYU’s inadequate response on the bargaining table. The entire NYU community will benefit from a just & fair contract. Let’s
#StrikeOnNYU
on 4/26.
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.
@brandonwestnyc
&
@alexaforcouncil
addressing the picket line crowd out this morning to
#StrikeOnNYU
!!
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The pressure from the picket line is working! While NYU has made some movement, we need to turn up the pressure to get the wages we deserve. This week, we ask you to bring ✨someone✨ to the picket line with you on Tuesday and Friday. Photo credit: Noelle Chan.
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Currently home drinking some tea and honey after all the shouting on the
@SW_Columbia
picket! The solidarity and energy was amazing
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Beautiful fall day to:
1. Switch back to hot coffee.
2. Dig a sweater out of the closet.
3. Build union power from 4:30-6:00 at 238 Thompson St.
4. Tell NYU what you think about invited guest Henry Kissinger immediately after building union power
5. Scarves.
🍂 🌞✊🏽
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We thought it necessary to respond to some of the claims made in the email that President Hamilton and Provost Fleming sent earlier today. See our full response here:
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A strong strike wins a strong contract. Keeping workers out on strike means keeping them paid and out on the picket line.
A hardship mutual aid fund has been set up to support our
#StrikeOnNYU
.
Please, if you’re able, donate:
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110 years later we honor & remember the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, mostly immigrant women.
We stand on the shoulders of giants, demanding contract protections for international grad workers – demands which NYU has refused.
So now we vote to strike.
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refuse to replace graduate student workers on strike. We condemn Columbia’s repeated retaliation and unfair labor practices. We commit not to seek nor accept any contract or adjunct employment at Columbia University which seeks to replace striking members.
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Photos from Friday’s picket by
@scottheins
. We’ve seen some movement from NYU last week, but not enough, so we’ll see you on the picket line Monday! Let’s keep showing our collective strength + put more pressure on NYU. Together we fight / we won’t break the strike!
#StrikeonNYU
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Thank you
@MorePerfectUS
for letting us tell our story and spread the strike. Strikes work and here's how we did it! We encourage you to find out more about your local university's student union and take action.
2200 graduate student workers at NYU went on strike for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. And they won, big.
Here’s how they did it — and how other student workers can too.
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Director of Public Relations at
@nyuniversity
0 for 2 on countering our strike, instead just making everyone furious all over again and fortifying our support.
All good up there, NYU? Maybe time for a nap?
NYU President Andrew Hamilton called the strike "unwarranted" and insisted graduate student workers were demanding too much.
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We are over here absolutely amazed at
@IndianaGrads
yes vote for week 4. After 3 weeks on strike, we were EXHAUSTED. If you remember that feeling, consider boosting our union siblings now by donating to their strike fund
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We have 10 paid Zoom accounts up and running, for faculty who would like to switch their classes off NYU owned Zoom accounts in solidarity!
If faculty want to access one of the accounts, they can email gsocfacultytech
@gmail
.com and we will set them up with a login.
#StrikeOnNYU
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We’re holding a strike vote because:
• we deserve a living wage
• healthcare should be free
• cops (nypd/ice/cbp) shouldn’t be on campus
• parents need time & money for childcare
• power-based abuse is rampant
• international workers need support
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✊COLUMBIA ON STRIKE✊
Sending love, strength, and solidarity to our grad worker comrades at Columbia withholding their labor and rent to win their demands. ❤️🖤❤️
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Our union siblings are striking uptown at Columbia! GSOC fully supports
@SW_Columbia
as they strike for a living wage and fair benefits. Worker power is stronger than university admins, and union power is stronger than the power of the bosses. See you all on the picket line!
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Zavier is a PhD candidate in
@nyuniversity
's joint History & Middle Eastern Studies program. He's unable to access key archives for his dissertation research and has had several grants canceled or postponed. He's calling for a
#UniversalExtension
and knows that
#NYUCanAffordIt
!
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Along with graduate workers across the country, we're calling for an end to police terror & white supremacy. We demand our universities cut ties with police departments.
@nyuniversity
must end its relationship with the NYPD!
#XCampusNoCops
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LIVING WAGE
HEALTHCARE
TUITION WAIVERS
CHILDCARE
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTIONS
PARENTAL LEAVE
PROTECTIONS FROM ABUSE
WE’RE F$€%ING PREPARED TO GO ON STRIKE TO WIN ALL OF IT IF WE HAVE TO!!!
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NYU’s Department of Politics has zero Black tenured or tenure-track professors, but
@nyuniversity
has paid and protected Lawrence Mead for over four decades. 🤔
This stunning article by Lawrence Mead, an NYU professor, argues that Blacks and Hispanics, because they are not European, are “unprepared” for “individualist culture” in America. A few highlights:
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@rhbirdwell
@DannyDeVito
@SW_Columbia
And this is exactly why the university should be bargaining in good faith! To get workers back in the classroom. Instead the university has stalled negotiations. Your teachers working conditions are your learning conditions!
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All of NYU's responses to its students and workers summarized for you in a one minute video!
#NYUMakesUsSick
#NYUCanAffordIt
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UAW members and allied unionists: SIGN ON this letter, written by many rank-and-file UAW members, to call on the UAW International to endorse calls for Palestinian liberation and end Israel's genocide, and join the BDS movement.
Full letter:
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What's disgusting? Union busting! Columbia is withholding wages AND stipends from striking
@SW_Columbia
workers. Join us in donating to their mutual aid fund:
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Chicago grad workers get their union election after 10 years of organizing! CONGRATULATIONS & GET READY TO VOTE CHICAGO! 🎇✊🏽🎊✊🏼🎈✊🏾🎉
"ACCORDINGLY, I DIRECT AN ELECTION"
So says the NLRB regional director. We have a
#union
vote on October 17-18!
#YesGSU
#WeAreWorkers
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
We settled and executed the Course Assistant (CA) underpayment grievance! Over $1.7 million in settlement pay will be distributed by Oct 16th to more than 600 CAs from GSAS, Stern, Tandon and Steinhardt who worked Spring 2021-2022.
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TOMORROW!
We are protesting the possible faculty appointment of David Sabatini, who has been fired or resigned from 3 institutions due to sexual misconduct.
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When we fight together, we win! After a tense bargaining session, a petition, and a pledge garnered 400+ signatures in just a few days, we successfully pressured NYU to rescind their decision barring international students stranded abroad from working.
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Turn it up on the picket line today! Join all your co-workers on the march for a fair contract. We are going to hear from speakers from CUNY and the MLK Scholars, updates on struggles in Colombia, and more Cops off Campus Speak Out.
#StrikeOnNYU
. Photo credit
@same_old_sass
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Channel your rage at Andy Hamilton’s utterly absurd & insulting email by donating to the hardship mutual aid fund to keep us on strike so we can finally earn 37.5 times less than Andy does.
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1,200+ strong, graduate workers demand "NYU, STOP STONEWALLING!" Our petition calls out NYU’s slow and indifferent response to workers and this 🧵 breaks it all down.
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A former member is facing deportation to an active war zone because NYU refuses to grant their degree (a doctor of dental surgery) until their outstanding balances are paid. Individual GSOC members have set up a mutual aid fund here:
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Join fellow GSOC workers in supporting Columbia Student workers! Meet at the Morningside Heights Library at 10am Wednesday to walk over together.
We are going to SHUT DOWN Columbia University on Wednesday, 8th December. Be there to support us for this fight is for us, and when we say “us,” it includes all the workers and their rights!
C U Strike at the Picket Line!
#CUonStrike
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As the first successful attempt of grad students at a private US school to unionize, we see the immense benefits we've gained from coming together to bargain with our employer,
#NYU
. And this is why we strongly support
@dukegradunion
& all other grads struggling to unionize!
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Update:
@nyuniversity
has retracted the eviction for graduate students but not for undergrads
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GSOC is a rank & file led union and we stand shoulder to shoulder with rank & file grad workers at Columbia fighting to win their demands.
The power of a union is in the ability of workers to strike. If the rank & file continue to strike, we support them.
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