Organizing from below: Chinese international student workers and the UC Strike: A rank-and-file interview about race, class, and labor organizing in US higher education
The six-week-long strike across the University of California (UC) campuses last year marked the largest industrial action in higher education in US history. This strike also saw the participation of many Chinese international student workers, a population that is stereotypically seen as apolitical and detached from US issues. Like their domestic and other international peers, many engaged in independent political organizing for the first time, and expressed a diversity of attitudes toward the controversial contract and how the strike was organized.
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Questions remain for USC international graduate workers after contract win
Graduate student workers at the University of Southern California (USC) ratified their first-ever union contract on December 7, 2023. Although the contract achieved a number of important gains for graduate workers and passed with a significant margin (eighty percent) after a hard-fought campaign by the Graduate Student Workers Organizing Committee (GSWOC-UAW), some, especially international graduate workers, had concerns about the bargaining process. Tempest member Promise Li interviews international student worker Rao about the issues they faced during the bargaining period.
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纪录｜2023 UMich GEO 罢工全纪录【下】 (untranslated)
本文详细回顾了密西根大学在2022至2023年从谈判开始到罢工结束将近九个月的全过程，记录了密西根大学的研究生工人们如何在异常艰难的抗争当中一步步取得了胜利。此为下篇。
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