Columbia’s Graduate Worker Union Struggle, 2004-2022
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Last week, after over nine weeks on the picket line, striking graduate workers at Columbia won a rare victory. In this analysis, participants chronicle why they had to confront the union bureaucracy in order to take on the administration.
Their victory shows that workers who seek to assert their interests in the workplace must begin by fighting for self-determination and grassroots power within workplace organizing itself.
