Strapped for cash, college undergraduates form labor unions

Strapped for cash, college undergraduates form labor unionsIn this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, students walk on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The University of California says it has offered admission to nearly 70,000 California undergraduates, a slight dip from last year’s historic high. Preliminary figures …

“When conditions are not satisfactory, workers might be compelled to organize, especially when they see union successes in other workplaces and when they get support from either a national union or from other unionized workers on campus,” said Tim Cain, a University of Georgia professor of higher education.

“We’re tired of the fact that nothing’s changed, and we’re determined to do something to fix it,” said Mr. Starr, a member of the bargaining team for the California State University Employees Union. Writing to The Times, a union spokesperson called it “the first official step of negotiations” and said the next step would be agreeing to bargaining dates.

“For decades, CSU management treated student assistants as a cheap labor pool, paying them minimum wage and with no benefits, even though they perform similar work as union staff,” said Ms. Hutchinson,” a Cal State Channel Islands biology technician and former undergraduate lab assistant. William Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College in New York City, said tuition increases and a “massive growth in economic and wealth inequality” since 1980 have driven the trend. He said President Biden’s pledge to lead “the most pro-union administration in American history” has also played a role.

Elsewhere, the NLRB heard this month from Berea College students looking to form a labor union on their private campus in Kentucky.

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