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Teaching assistants from the Graduate Workers of Columbia University–United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW Local 2110) went on strike Tuesday (April 24). Union members began picketing on the university’s main quad after a 10 AM deadline the union set for the university to agree to enter into bargaining talks passed with no word from the administration.
“We won a union election with 72 percent of the vote 16 months ago—and the law is clear. Columbia must bargain with us. As long as they refuse to respect our legal rights, we will take action to take our power back,” teaching assistant Olga Brudastova of Columbia’s engineering department says in a statement.
Art history and archaeology graduate student Natalie McCann tells The Columbia Spectator that she wants the university ...
