Podcasts about graduate workers

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UMD Fearless Student Employees hand-bill with Painters District Council 51 at construction sites around the University of Maryland College Park. Today's labor quote: Merle Travis.   Today's labor history: Death of Eugene V. Debs.     @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @iupat_dc51 @FSE_UMD Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Right now, a majority of residential advisers at Kenyon College, organized with the Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee, are on an indefinite strike over unfair labor practices. At the same time, over 1,750 graduate student workers at Indiana University with the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition are on strike, demanding that the university administration formally recognize their union, pay graduate workers a livable wage, and eliminate costly student fees. In this extended mini-cast, we talk about these important struggles with three worker-organizers across the two campuses: Molly Orr, a sophomore at Kenyon College who works at the Kenyon Farm and the Writing Center; Nora Weber, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Sociology at Indiana University;  and Anne Kavalerchik, a third-year PhD candidate in Sociology and Informatics at Indiana University. Additional links/info below... Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition—United Electrical Workers website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram  Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee—United Electrical Workers website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram  Nora's Twitter page  Kenyon Strike Fund: K-SWOC-UE Strike Fund - Spring 2022  Indiana Strike Fund: STRIKE UNTIL WE WIN FUND! Maria Carrasco, Inside Higher Ed, "Kenyon College Residential Advisers Go On Indefinite Strike" Hali Tauxe, Indiana Daily Student, "As Graduate Workers Contemplate Strike, Bloomington Campus Officials Announce Raises" Jeremy Hogan, The Bloomingtonian, "Gallery: Grad Workers Strike Tuesday, April 19, 2022" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song

Right now, a majority of residential advisers at Kenyon College, organized with the Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee, are on an indefinite strike over unfair labor practices. At the same time, over 1,750 graduate student workers at Indiana University with the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition are on strike, demanding that the university administration formally recognize their union, pay graduate workers a livable wage, and eliminate costly student fees. In this episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks about these important struggles with three worker-organizers across the two campuses: Molly Orr, a sophomore at Kenyon College who works at the Kenyon Farm and the Writing Center; Nora Weber, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Sociology at Indiana University; and Anne Kavalerchik, a third-year PhD candidate in Sociology and Informatics at Indiana University.Read the transcript of this episode and see full show notes:Pre-Production: Maximillian AlvarezPost-Production: Jules TaylorFeatured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org):Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

IU grad workers go on strike. A court OKs Indiana’s two-primary rule for party affiliation. Waltz pleads guilty and more.

On Sunday, April 10, a 97.8 percent affirmative vote by IU graduate workers set into motion the largest indefinite strike Bloomington has seen in decades. Everyday that we can, WFHB’s Strike Mic will bring you to the frontlines of this movement, allowing you to understand the issues and the action through the voices of the …

On April 10th, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers opened a virtual strike authorization vote. The strike vote was tallied on Monday afternoon with 97.8 percent voting in favor. 1,031 total votes were cast with 1,008 voting in favor of striking and 23 voting against it. That means a strike will proceed from April …

“The university still has refused to sit down with us and come up with a better plan to improve our working conditions,” says one speaker. “That is not acceptable.” The crowd cheers, volunteers bang on drums, and the applause continues. These were the sounds and voices from the Town Hall held by the Indiana Graduate …

COVID-19 has put an incredible amount of pressure on higher education and its workers, including graduate students and contingent faculty who shoulder heavy workloads and make poverty-level or near-poverty-level wages. While simultaneously fighting to get universities to recognize them as workers, many graduate students around the U.S. are organizing, demanding, and even going on strike for better wages, benefits, and treatment. In the first segment of this week's “Marc Steiner Show,” we speak with three graduate workers and organizers about what they're fighting for and what these fights mean for the future of higher education: Rithika Ramamurthy, an English Ph.D. candidate at Brown University and president of the Graduate Labor Organization; Harlan Chambers, a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society and member of the Graduate Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2110 and the Columbia Academic Workers for a Democratic Union caucus; and Dylan Iannitelli, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Biology at NYU and a steward for the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, the grad worker union at NYU.Then, in our second segment, we kick off an exciting collaboration with Jacobin magazine by talking with Matthew E. Stanley about his recent series of Jacobin articles on the continued relevance of forgotten or understudied struggles in 19th-century America. Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia; he is the author of “The Loyal West: War and Reunion in Middle America,” and he has a new book coming out with the University of Illinois Press called “Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War.”Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Friday on TRNN.

COVID-19 has put an incredible amount of pressure on higher education and its workers, including graduate students and contingent faculty who shoulder heavy workloads and make poverty-level or near-poverty-level wages. While simultaneously fighting to get universities to recognize them as workers, many graduate students around the U.S. are organizing, demanding, and even going on strike for better wages, benefits, and treatment. In the first segment of this week's “Marc Steiner Show,” we speak with three graduate workers and organizers about what they're fighting for and what these fights mean for the future of higher education: Rithika Ramamurthy, an English Ph.D. candidate at Brown University and president of the Graduate Labor Organization; Harlan Chambers, a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society and member of the Graduate Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2110 and the Columbia Academic Workers for a Democratic Union caucus; and Dylan Iannitelli, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Biology at NYU and a steward for the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, the grad worker union at NYU.Then, in our second segment, we kick off an exciting collaboration with Jacobin magazine by talking with Matthew E. Stanley about his recent series of Jacobin articles on the continued relevance of forgotten or understudied struggles in 19th-century America. Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia; he is the author of “The Loyal West: War and Reunion in Middle America,” and he has a new book coming out with the University of Illinois Press called “Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War.”Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Friday on TRNN.

Mo' money, fewer problems? Today, Brendane & Alyssa take on the question of getting that government guap - reparations, baby! Our new sound is finally here - shout out to our music producer Segnon Tiewul for di big tuuuune! Let us know what you think on Twitter and Instagram. Additionally, the Graduate Workers at Columbia University are currently on strike to push agreement on a fair labor contract with the university, who has threated to dock pay. Donate to the solidarity fund here. *Note* The conference panel Alyssa talks about moderating was postponed due to the strike. An opinion poll released last summer found that 80% of Black Americans believed the federal government should compensate the descendants of enslaved people, compared with 21% of white Americans. In our segment What's the Word? we discuss reparations - what it has meant and what it could mean. In What We're Reading, we talk about Deborah A. Thomas's introduction and coda to her monograph Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011) to understand what it means to use reparations as a framework for thinking. In our last segment, What in the World?! we have Dr. Thomas on to discuss how her thinking has evolved from reparations to repair, embodiment to affect, and citizenship to sovereignty in her follow up book, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (2019). We also talk about the questions that animate her research, the announcement of reparations for (some) Black residents in Evanston, Illinois, the 'conjuncture' that's got everyone talking about reparations, and why we should mobilize for reparations and repair on multiple scales. Liked what you heard? Donate here! Discussed this week: Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Deborah A. Thomas, 2011) Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (Deborah A. Thomas, 2019) The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2014) U.S. Museums Hold the Remains of Thousands of Black People (Delande Justinvil and Chip Colwell, 2021) Payback's a B**** (Code Switch, NPR, 2021) ZD Merch available here and the syllabus for ZD 102 is here! Follow us @zorasdaughters on Instagram and @zoras_daughters on Twitter! Transcript will be available on our website here.

Prior to COVID-19, a significant percentage of academic revenue –particularly in terms of New York University (NYU) and Columbia University– came from real estate. COVID-19 has jeopardized the security of those assets and underlined the importance of teaching staff in order to establish value for classes that are online for the same full tuition as in person learning. So why is Columbia University refusing to agree to the demands of the Graduate Student Workers Union? Why are graduate students who typically make below the Federal Poverty Line having their pay withheld by Columbia in lieu of redistributing money from the university’s endowment?Yasemin Akçagüner (representing the Columbia Graduate Student Workers Strike) and Dylan Iannitelli (representing the Graduate Student Union at NYU) join We Be Imagining to share an inside view of being a scholar during the austerity politics of COVID-19, the scope of their demands which include the right to neutral arbitration for workers experiencing sexual harassment and the stakes of their labor organizing given graduate students are the life blood of a university.Yasemin Akcaguner Graduate Student Worker, 3rd year PhD and TA in History Department a member of Graduate Workers of Columbia University: GWC-UAW Local 2110 , UAW Local 2110 and Academic Workers For a Demcratic Union (AWDU)Dylan Iannitelli 6th year PhD student in Biology studying neurodegeneration, a member of the Grad Student Union at NYU and a member of the Academic Workers For a Demcratic Union (AWDU).**PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE COLUMBIA ACADEMIC STUDENT WORKERS HARDSHIP FUND Solidarity with Columbia Academic Student WorkersIG + Twitter: @WeBeImaginingSupport Us: On PatreonHost: J. Khadijah AbdurahmanMusic: Drew LewisLinks for the Episode:The graduate workers union strike: explainedColumbia reports $310 million increase in endowment during pandemic while smaller schools flounderNYU strike authorization vote begins as graduate workers continue strike at Columbia UniversityIvy League Presidents Take Pay Cuts Up to 25% in CrisisColumbia TAs who say they can't pay their rent due to COVID-19 launch work stoppageColumbia University graduate students demand rent freezeColumbia People's COVID ResponseColumbia still refuses to give the GWC-UAW neutral, third-party arbitration. Is this indicative of a deeper institutional issue?FY 2020 Financial Statements for The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkGSOC Petitions for NYU to Stop Stonewalling Contract NegotiationsColumbia Grad Students On Strike Over Wages And Harassment Policies, NYU Counterparts Voting On Similar ActionsColumbia canceled housing contracts, so 14,000 students moved into the city. What does this mean for the local housing market?

John Tarleton, Editor-in-Chief of the Indypendent and the Indy's Julia Thomas interview: —Steven Wishnia, long-time reporter on the drug war and the author of 'The Cannabis Companion.' New York is on the verge of enacting historic legislation to legalize marijuana and create a legal market for it to be bought and sold. —Lauren Gurley, a labor reporter for Vice who has reported extensively on Amazon. She has been covering the labor struggle that has been unfolding in Bessemer, Alabama where nearly 6,000 Amazon workers voted on whether to form the first Amazon union shop in the US. The company has poured millions into trying to convince its workers to reject the union. —Colleen Baublitz, a PhD candidate at Columbia University and a member of the Graduate Workers of Columbia union. Thousands of students with the Graduate Workers of Columbia union have been on strike since March 15 over demands for higher pay, expanded healthcare provisions, and workplace protections after two years of stalled contract negotiations.

John Tarleton and Julia Thomas interview Colleen Baublitz, a PhD candidate in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Columbia University, and a member of the Graduate Workers of Columbia union. Thousands of students with the Graduate Workers of Columbia union have been on strike since March 15 over demands for higher pay, expanded healthcare provisions, and workplace protections. This comes after two years of stalled contract negotiations.

This week on Arts and (Space)Crafts the boys welcome the resident Botanist of the show, Jared Meek back to the pod for the third time! We about the details of the strike happening at Columbia, how this can affect graduate workers across the nation, and much more!  Links to the union/strike information-  https://columbiagradunion.org/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/solidarity-with-columbia-academic-student-workers https://tinyurl.com/fm68cvph Art- Kerina McCarthy Music- Tribe Society  Tweets- @gakejodek @kevbot817 @meekeasy emails- artsandspacecrafts1@gmail.com  

Keith Mackey, founder of Mackey International, an aviation consulting firm specializing in aviation safety and risk management, talks to us about the multiple rounds of bailout grants funneled to airlines totalling 50 billion dollars, how they are interconnected to other parts of the economy, whether the rank-and-file workers in the airline industry are benefitting from these bailouts, and whether we will see any changes in the industry post-pandemic. Andrew Bishop, member of the Graduate Workers of Columbia/UAW union, joins us to talk about the strike that began on Monday, March 15 by graduate workers, their demands for better pay, conditions and benefits, the current situation of workers at the university, how the fight has evolved throughout the years, what actions are taking place right now, and how to build worker solidarity. Kristine Hendrix, president of the University City School Board, Junior Bayard Rustin Fellow with the Fellowship for Reconciliation and contributor to the Truth-Telling Project and "We Stay Woke" podcast, join hosts Michelle Witte and Bob Schlehuber to talk about the shootings in Atlanta, how there is no single explanation for it and how it encompasses prejudice against Asians, misogyny, white supremacy, and the fetishization of minorities. We also talk about the shockingly high number of mass shootings in the country, and how the epidemic of gun violence often gets overlooked.Trudy Goldberg, chair of National Jobs For All Coalition and Professor Emerita of Social Policy at Adelphi University, joins our Trends with Benefits segment to talk about the impact of the pandemic and the recent increase in unemployment claims, how unemployment is counted, who’s being left out, and about the need for direct government job creation through a “jobs guarantee.”The Misfits also talk about Russia recalling its ambassador to the U.S. after scathing remarks and accusations by the Biden administration, and Biden’s pick to head the FDA and her close ties to big pharma.

UNC graduate student workers have created a list of demands they would like University leaders to meet in response to COVID-19 conditions. Entitled “Demands for the Immediate Relief of Graduate Workers at UNC-CH,” the statement outlines a variety of graduate student worker concerns, including a 75 percent cost of living adjustment and additional time and funding to complete degrees. Host Evely Forte talks to DTH University staff writer Rachel Crumpler to break down these demands and to better understand how they will impact the UNC campus community. Episode produced by Allie Kelly. For more information on today's episode, visit https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/grad-student-demands-0416. Other DTH stories mentioned in this episode: "New Student Orientation to be held online due to novel coronavirus pandemic," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/orientation-online-0414, by Preston Fore “Coronavirus extends uncertainty of study abroad programs into the fall semester,” https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/fall-study-abroad-covid-0416 , by Anthony Howard “Meet the students and volunteers making face shields to donate during COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/students-making-masks-0414, by Claire Tynan “UNC researchers collaborate on a potential pill to help treat COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/antiviral-drug-0415, by Isabella Sherk “Here's a rundown of Wednesday's Zoom campus safety meeting,” by Sasha Schroeder If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest rating and review. Have questions you’d like us to answer or have a suggestion for a story? Email us at: university@dailytarheel.com  

UNC graduate student workers have created a list of demands they would like University leaders to meet in response to COVID-19 conditions. Entitled “Demands for the Immediate Relief of Graduate Workers at UNC-CH,” the statement outlines a variety of graduate student worker concerns, including a 75 percent cost of living adjustment and additional time and funding to complete degrees. Host Evely Forte talks to DTH University staff writer Rachel Crumpler to break down these demands and to better understand how they will impact the UNC campus community. Episode produced by Allie Kelly. For more information on today's episode, visit https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/grad-student-demands-0416. Other DTH stories mentioned in this episode: "New Student Orientation to be held online due to novel coronavirus pandemic," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/orientation-online-0414, by Preston Fore “Coronavirus extends uncertainty of study abroad programs into the fall semester,” https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/fall-study-abroad-covid-0416 , by Anthony Howard “Meet the students and volunteers making face shields to donate during COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/students-making-masks-0414, by Claire Tynan “UNC researchers collaborate on a potential pill to help treat COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/antiviral-drug-0415, by Isabella Sherk “Here's a rundown of Wednesday's Zoom campus safety meeting,” by Sasha Schroeder If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest rating and review. Have questions you'd like us to answer or have a suggestion for a story? Email us at: university@dailytarheel.com  

Live from the beautifully crumbling Prentis Hall! It’s a round table discussion about art schools, debt, student organizing, and the bureaucratic nightmare labyrinth that is privatized education. Shout-out to Fontaine Capel for hosting us and solidarity with the Columbia Graduate Workers bargaining for a fair contract with UAW Local 2110 (@GWCUAW). We also read Lenin … Continue reading "Episode 34 – Columbia University MFA Students"

More museum protests! We talk about Liberate Tate’s successful demonstration against BP in 2011, and how groups like Art Not Oil (@artnotoil) and BP or Not BP (@reclaimourbard) are continuing to fight against corporate sponsorship of art exhibitions. To be honest we mostly talk about music, fashion, fucked up real estate, and how much we … Continue reading "Episode 33 – Fursonas as Class Consciousness"

We talk with Jared Sacks and Buka Okoye, two members of the Columbia grad union (GWC-UAW Local 2110 Graduate Workers of Columbia) about graduate student-workers' fight for more transparent, democratic representation.    Additional links/info below... Jared Sacks, Columbia Spectator, "What Is “Open Bargaining” and How Will it Transform Columbia?" Graduate Workers of Columbia website, Twitter, and Facebook page Columbia Academic Workers for a Democratic Union website, Twitter, and Facebook page   Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

In this episode, we talk to a professor at Columbia University about how her photography class stood in solidarity with the Graduate Workers of Columbia's recent strike. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hundreds of classes have been canceled and dozens more relocated as a strike by graduate employees at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign continues into a second week. On Tuesday night, graduate workers occupied the office of university president Tim Killeen. Strikers have a variety of demands, but one of the most contentious points focuses on the future of tuition waivers — and whether some graduate workers will have to pay tuition while employed in academic positions on campus.

In a landmark decision last month, Columbia University graduate students won the right to unionize in a case filed against the National Labor Relations Board. As a result, graduate students in private universities across the U.S. now have the right to collectively bargain. What effect does this have on architecture student labor, and the valuation of architecture overall? We're joined this week by special guest A.L. Hu, a third-year GSAPP MArch student and key organizer with Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC-UAW). Hu shared what's happening at the school after the landmark decision, and how these organizing efforts can affect the architecture profession overall.

Lindsey Dayton from the Graduate Workers of Columbia joins us to talk about the recent NLRB ruling that graduate students who work for private universities are employees and have the right to unionize. The post Belabored Podcast #111: Workers’ Rights for Graduate Employees, with Lindsey Dayton appeared first on Dissent Magazine.