Comment on Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Fuck the UAW. They approved ending grad student strike activity at my university with only 19% approval.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 7 months ago
That sucks. Sorry, but why are the grad students represented by UAW?
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t know. I thought it was very odd myself.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 7 months ago
Yeah, tbh I’d see if you can get a different union to represent you, but it doesn’t look like there’s one union specifically for grad students. (I’m assuming you’re in the US, if UAW was an option)
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I graduated. I tried bringing this up, but no one seems to care that they shaft us. The university puts out a ton of propaganda about how people will be punished for strike activities, and it scares the international students into being scabs because they’re scared they’ll lose their visas.