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The Trump administration's budget cuts have significantly impacted over 1,500 young scientists at Harvard, including graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who rely on federal funding for salaries, stipends, and tuition support.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union, traditionally associated with autoworkers, has seen a growing number of academic workers, including graduate students, join its ranks. Approximately 100,000 of the UAW's 383,000 members now work in higher education, including teaching and research assistants, clerical and technical workers, adjunct professors, and postdocs. The union's expansion into academia has helped maintain its numbers as its share of autoworkers has decreased. The UAW has been actively organizing in universities across the country, with recent unionization votes at the University of Maine and ongoing votes at the University of Alaska.
Graduate students at the University of Michigan have gone on an illegal strike after five months of negotiations with university administrators over pay and other benefits. The Graduate Employees' Organization union, which represents about 2,300 graduate student instructors and staff assistants, voted to authorize a strike last week. The university filed an unfair labor practice charge against GEO with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on Wednesday, asking the commission to order the GEO to stop unlawfully striking, university spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said.