FIELD WORK: An Experiment on Striking STEM Research at Dartmouth College
The Dartmouth graduate worker strike, launched on May 1st, 2024, was a direct outgrowth of the years of struggle and militant organizing by the workers who now comprise the long-haul tendency. Our strategy and entire framework was structured by lessons learned from those who came before us, and our eagerness to learn and apply these lessons was perhaps our greatest strength. With this in mind, we aim here to analyze how our implementation of these ideas unfolded in the context of Dartmouth’s particular social and organizational structure.
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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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