Inside Academic Strikes
Since we began this project, there have been a series of unprecedented and historic strike actions that academic student workers and student researchers have organized at public and private universities. These strikes have been organized around academic workers' working and cost of living conditions that are largely influenced by the geographical location of these Universities. As a group, we are tracking these strikes, namely the one that took place at the University of California in the Fall of 2022, in which we were active participants. We are interested in understanding how the labor process of academic workers and student researchers shaped the progression and outcome of these strikes.
Inside the UMich Strike (2023)
"University of Michigan grad student employees ratify new deal after historic strike" (August 25, 2023)
"University of Michigan, Graduate Employees' Organization reach tentative agreement" (August 22, 2023)
"An end in sight: GEO authorizes bargaining team to agree to UMich contract" (August 22, 2023)
"University Of Michigan Makes “Last, Best, And Final Offer” To Striking Graduate Students" (August 21, 2023)
"MichMash: University of Michigan making plans to replace striking educators" (August 16, 2023)
"Reflections on a Teaching Assistant Strike" (July 3, 2023)
"University of Michigan under investigation after striking graduate instructors file complaint" (June 16, 2023)
"Unfair labor practice charges dropped but war of words continues in GEO strike against U of M" (June 9, 2023)
"2023 GEO labor union strike | U-M Public Affairs" (Updated June 9, 2023)
"Amid Michigan grad workers’ strike, some classes get all A’s" (May 19, 2023)
"Graduate Workers at the University of Michigan Have Been on Strike for Over a Month" (May 14, 2023)
"University of Michigan: 91% of grades submitted as grad student employees continue strike" (May 10, 2023)
"AFT and GEO liquidate strike by grad student workers at University of Michigan" (May 7, 2023)
"University of Michigan Graduate Student Strike Continues in the Face of Increasing Retaliation" (April 24, 2023)
"University of Michigan grad union strike can continue, judge rules" (April 11, 2023)
"U-M graduate student workers on strike, seeking better pay and benefits" (March 29, 2023)
"UMich undergraduates divided over GEO strike" (April 6, 2023)
Inside the UC Strike (2022)
“After historic strike, UC grad students say university isn’t honoring pay agreements" (Sep 5, 2023)
"How University of California Workers Won the Biggest Higher-Ed Strike in US History" (Sep 2, 2023)
“Short of the Long Haul” Part 1 by Jack Davies and Sarah Mason (Jul. 11, 2023)
“UC San Diego student workers arrested after allegations of conspiracy and vandalism” (June 30, 2023)
“UAW 2865, campus enter mediation over computing course staff as pressures mount” by Cameron Fozi (May 3, 2023)
“Will New Leadership Make the UAW Labor’s Vanguard Once Again?” by Nelson Lichtenstein (Feb 2, 2023)
“A Tale of Two Strikes” by Kevin Kadowaki (Feb. 6, 2023)
“Organizing from below: Chinese international student workers and the UC Strike”. Interview with Yueran and others (Jan. 31, 2023)
“Our Pickets, Our University: Reflections by Organizers of UC Berkeley’s ‘Gas Pickets’” (Dec. 30, 2022)
“Why Striking University of California Workers May Vote “No” on Their Contract” by Sammy Feldblum and Lavanya Nott (Dec. 22, 2022)
“A Landmark Wage Increase at the University of California” by Nelson Lichtenstein (Dec.24, 2022)
“Viewpoints: How Academic Workers’ Leverage Can Grow in a Long-Haul Strike” by Jonathan Mackris and Abrar Abridi (Dec. 9, 2022)
“UC faculty divided over graduate student strike and its future impact” by Nanette Asimov (Dec. 9, 2022)
“The Strike” by Michael Meranze (Dec. 6, 2022)
““We Sold Out the People Who Elected Us”: UC Bargaining Team Member Speaks Out About Union Concessions” by Janna Haider (Dec. 2, 2022)
“This Year's Biggest Strike Is by 48,000 Academic Workers at the University of California” by Kenzo Esquivel (Nov. 23, 2022)
Higher Education and the Conditions for Striking
“The University of California Is Bailing Out Private Equity Giant Blackstone” by Matthew Cunningham-Cook (Apr. 24, 2023)
“Oxford University’s other diversity crisis” by Emma Irving (Mar. 1, 2023)
“The End of the English Major” by Nathan Heller (Feb. 27, 2023)
“Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student” by Hannah Appel (Feb. 8, 2023)
“The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy” by Christopher Newfield (Jan. 18, 2023)
“The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession” by Daniel Bessner (Jan. 14, 2023)
“Problems that led to UC strike have their roots in Schwarzenegger’s pressure to privatize UC” by Stanton Glantz (Nov. 29, 2022)
Clark Kerr’s Classic: The Uses of the University Turns 50” by Seth Rosenfeld (Dec. 9, 2013)
“From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education” by Aaron Brady and Mike Konczal (Fall 2012)