Thursday, February 19, 2004
GET UP WILL STRIKE
(edited cause I thought of more stuff I wanted to say)
Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania will strike for two days next week to pressure the university to drop the appeals and count the ballots of their election on its 1-year anniversary. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports
"Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania plan to strike for two days next week in a bid to shut down the campus and pressure the university to drop its legal opposition to a grad-student union.
The students hope to post enough pickets at Penn's nine main entrances to dissuade undergraduates, faculty and other employees from crossing the line and holding classes.
They also plan "civil" public demonstrations along the route of a parade scheduled for tomorrow on campus for incoming Penn president Amy Gutmann."
Perhaps the most important sentence in the entire article is this one:
Since [the 2000 NYU decision], the makeup of the NLRB has changed from a Democratic to a Republican majority, and Penn decided that appealing its case would be worthwhile.
The Inquirer thus links what's happening at Penn to the larger structural processes by which corporations like Yale are trying to destroy union organizing campaigns by exploiting warm relations with the state apparatus of control and authoritization to legislate union drives out of existence. We're also seeing a powerful response from graduate unions who are not only organizing to fight this corporate legislative assault, but are also developing strategies of winning recognition whatever the NLRB rules.
Smash Yale-[ comments.]
(edited cause I thought of more stuff I wanted to say)
Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania will strike for two days next week to pressure the university to drop the appeals and count the ballots of their election on its 1-year anniversary. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports
"Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania plan to strike for two days next week in a bid to shut down the campus and pressure the university to drop its legal opposition to a grad-student union.
The students hope to post enough pickets at Penn's nine main entrances to dissuade undergraduates, faculty and other employees from crossing the line and holding classes.
They also plan "civil" public demonstrations along the route of a parade scheduled for tomorrow on campus for incoming Penn president Amy Gutmann."
Perhaps the most important sentence in the entire article is this one:
Since [the 2000 NYU decision], the makeup of the NLRB has changed from a Democratic to a Republican majority, and Penn decided that appealing its case would be worthwhile.
The Inquirer thus links what's happening at Penn to the larger structural processes by which corporations like Yale are trying to destroy union organizing campaigns by exploiting warm relations with the state apparatus of control and authoritization to legislate union drives out of existence. We're also seeing a powerful response from graduate unions who are not only organizing to fight this corporate legislative assault, but are also developing strategies of winning recognition whatever the NLRB rules.
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