Tag: Rutgers strike

Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers

Apr 24, 2023

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Dana Cloud and Deepa Kumar

in Article, Interview

Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.
“We shut this place down because everybody walked out”

Apr 23, 2023

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Mel Bienenfeld, Hank Kalet, and Sebastian Leon

in Article, Interview

Tempest member Mel Bienenfeld interviewed with Rutgers workers Hank Kalet and Sebastian Leon about their historic strike, its methods, and its gains.