Striking student workers said the UO is making higher education “completely inaccessible for the most vulnerable students.”
Presenter: Eugene Police said they charged six after May Day marchers in Eugene blocked traffic, including a Lane Transit District bus. Here are highlights from the rally just before the march:
Ben Mannix: Hi, everyone. I’m Ben. I’m a physics Ph.D. student at UO and a proud member of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, GTFF. We’re here today on May 1, International Workers’ Day, May Day, and also known as Labor Day everywhere else in the world, to gather and celebrate our value and power as workers in our community.
[00:00:38] In our union, GTFF, we teach a lot of the classes and perform a lot of the research done at UO. If we stop working, UO stops working…