Daily News | Why higher education workers at Rutgers and beyond are striking, according to a Philly labor lawyer
, which are increasingly reaching a boiling point across the U.S.
saying that you thought we would see more organizing and striking among higher education workers, and we’ve seen that play out. What’s behind this trend? Canceled classes ... major research could be stopped. Hopefully it doesn’t disrupt kids graduating. These are the same kids that started college during COVID — 2019 going on 2020 — so they’ve had a pretty disruptive four years, and you would hope that this doesn’t disrupt it even more.
What have we seen historically in higher education strikes? What might be different in the current climate?It’s just goes with the trend that people want livable wages. I think COVID really accelerated that. You would expect your employer to recognize that a dollar is not what it was in 2019. If you’re an employer and you’re not giving your employees the benefits that they think that they’re entitled to, this is what you see — you see organizing.
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