University of Rochester Ph.D. students were striking on Thursday for the fourth day this week. They are continuing to push for University leaders to agree to a process for student workers to form a union.
Katie Gregory, an Ph.D. candidate in UR’s Environmental Sciences program said that she’s been involved in unionizing efforts since 2022. In June that same year, gas prices in the U.S. spiked to $5.01 a gallon.
“We are low earners, so that was being felt very much here,” Gregory said on Wednesday afternoon at the picket line on Wilson Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue. “And it was in the post-COVID rent boom, where things were going back up again. So, it was a penny-pinching time, and I think it was like a moment to act.”…