There have been a number of conflicts within grad student unions over whether to approve contracts. Many, many workers are confronting conditions of precarity where they're going to end up in jobs for only a short period of time. The struggle over this particular contract can become really high stakes because people may only live and work under one contract or two contracts.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir
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