Widespread staffing shortages, burnout and large classroom sizes have spurred strikes at schools and campuses.
As students across the country return to their classrooms for the 2022-2023 academic year, teachers and other employees have been raising the alarm over widespread staffing shortages, low pay, safety concerns and unfair contracts.five-day strike
Many of the striking workers serve as advisers for first-year students, including Roshan Abraham. The employees first unionized in 2020, but he says they have struggled to secure good faith negotiations from the university and have failed to reach a fair contract since then. The university staff members, including administrators who may make as little as $32,000 per year, voted 91 percent in favor of the strike, and are demanding a wage increase of 9 percent over two years to correspond with the rate of inflation. They’ve also filed unfair labor practice charges against the university for explicitly excluding employees in the union’s bargaining units from merit-based raises.
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