{"id":411591,"date":"2021-11-30T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=279152"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:37:30","slug":"student-workers-lead-rank-and-file-revolt-at-columbia-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/30\/student-workers-lead-rank-and-file-revolt-at-columbia-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Student workers lead rank-and-file revolt at Columbia University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Student workers lead rank-and-file revolt at Columbia University\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/34BZXDoBv7cxBJHDArTRTC?si=b61a18b7d343481a&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Back in the spring,<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3JraW5ncGVvcGxlLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz\/episode\/NjgwY2MzZmUtZjY5Yy00YjcxLTg2YTMtYmVmMThmMGRkNzRh?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiwxtOpi7_0AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg&amp;hl=en\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> we spoke with three graduate student workers<\/a> at Columbia University who were on strike with the Student Workers of Columbia union, UAW Local 2110. After rank-and-file members rejected the tentative agreement between the university and the bargaining committee, negotiations continued. However, Columbia has still failed to meet key demands, including better wages, dental and vision healthcare coverage, and third-party arbitration for cases involving harassment and discrimination. Now, Student Workers of Columbia are back on strike and have been on the picket line since Nov. 3. In this mini-cast, we talk with three graduate student workers, Joanna Lee, Tamara Hache, and Caroline Smith, about the current strike and how academic workers are an essential part of the labor movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional links\/info below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Student Workers of Columbia, UAW Local 2110 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studentworkersofcolumbia.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swcuaw\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> page, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SW_Columbia\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> page<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/opencollective.com\/student-workers-of-columbia\/projects\/withheld-stipends\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hardship Fund for Columbia Student Workers #CUonStrike<\/a><\/li><li><em>Working People<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly93b3JraW5ncGVvcGxlLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz\/episode\/NjgwY2MzZmUtZjY5Yy00YjcxLTg2YTMtYmVmMThmMGRkNzRh?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiwxtOpi7_0AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg&amp;hl=en\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mini-cast: Columbia Is a Bully (w\/ Joanna Lee, Harlan Chambers, &amp; Cameron Foltz)<\/a>&#8220;<\/li><li>Joanna&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjotatoes\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> page<\/li><li>Tamara&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/te_hache\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> page<\/li><li>Caroline&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Caro_lineP2\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> page<\/li><li>Ashley Wong, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/24\/nyregion\/columbia-grad-student-strike.html\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Columbia Student Workers Are Back On Strike<\/a>&#8220;<\/li><li>Rachel Himes, <em>Jacobin<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2021\/11\/columbia-university-graduate-workers-strike-dental-care-higher-wages\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Columbia Graduate Workers Like Me Are on Strike<\/a>&#8220;<\/li><li>Benjamin Stein, <em>Columbia Spectator<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/columbia-endowment-soars-up-323-percent-to-1435-billion-as-markets-recover-from-covid-19-recession\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Columbia Endowment Soars Up 32.3 Percent to $14.35 Billion as Markets Recover from COVID-19 Recession<\/a>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive at <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freemusicarchive.org<\/a>): Jules Taylor, &#8220;<em>Working People<\/em> Theme Song&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-transcript\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The transcript of this interview will be made available as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/student-workers-lead-rank-and-file-revolt-at-columbia-university\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing \u201cunprecedented\u201d gains that increased its endowment to $14.35 billion, Columbia University told student workers it couldn\u2019t provide them a living wage or dental and vision coverage. Now, workers are on strike and calling \u201cBS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5942,453,5578],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414857,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411591\/revisions\/414857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}