Today on TAP: Some UAW teaching assistants object to their union’s endorsement of Biden. That’s understandable but idiotic.
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Caltech’s Postdocs and Grad Workers Seek Union Recognition
Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia.
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University of California Under Fire for Blackstone Investment
The university has invested $4.5 billion with the real estate arm of the private equity giant.
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The Labor Board Gets a Raise
Today on TAP: With organizing campaigns and strikes on the rise, Congress finally proposes to increase funding for the NLRB—for the first time since 2014.
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Splitting the Strikers at UC
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
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What the UC Strikers Need to Do Differently
Today on TAP: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.
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Revolution at the UAW
Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.
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Why I’m on Strike at the University of California
On how to stop a history of recurrent exploitation
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The Academic Proles on the Barricades
Today on TAP: Some progress in the University of California strike, but nowhere near enough. And by the way, where’s Gavin?
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How Did Those UC Grad Students Become Auto Workers?
The UAW’s campus organizing record is far better than its auto factory record—and it can back up its UC members with a sizable strike fund.