Doctoral students forming a union at the University of Rochester have announced plans to hold a strike later this month.
Union organizers said in a statement that the strike scheduled for April 21 follows the university’s refusal to commit to a fair process for graduate workers to vote on forming a union. In a vote last week, 90% of graduate student workers supported a strike.
“This school cannot function without grad workers, and we will see the realities of that come April 21st,” Maeve Gillen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Music Theory department, said in a statement. “Hundreds of grads are committed to striking. … We do not want to do this, but until the university signs our election agreement, they leave us no choice.”…