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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

US graduate students protest against low pay while universities profit from their work

Graduate students at Columbia University on strike in New York City on 1 April 2021.
Graduate students at Columbia University on strike in New York City on 1 April 2021. Photograph: Debra L Rothenberg/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Thousands of graduate student workers around the US at private and public universities have gone on strike over the past few years, from Ivy League institutions like Harvard University and Columbia University to public state universities in California.

Graduate workers at even more colleges have organized unions in spite of staunch opposition from their administrations. Among the most pressing unifying themes among graduate student workers organizing unions and holding protest actions and strikes is the low pay, an issue plaguing graduate student workers around the US.

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