Jewish graduate students must either support union antisemitism or forfeit their careers.
When the anti- Israel campus protests broke out last year, they had the support of an ally whose role until recently has been largely overlooked: graduate student unions. These unions are abrought by the outraged students who are forced to fund them, whether they agree with their antisemitic rhetoric or not.
That condition puts Jewish students in a bind. Taubman said he’s fielded phone calls from “Jewish and Israeli graduate students at the nation’s elite educational institutions—MIT, Columbia, NYU, the University of Chicago and Northwestern to name a few—asking how they can disassociate … from the antisemitic anti-Israel union that is menacing them on campus, protecting their tormentors, or
The university historically opposed unionization as a threat to academic freedom, according to the complaint. But in 2022, a group of students calledUnder the GSU-UE collective bargaining agreement, UChicago graduate students must either become duespaying members of the union, or pay it an equivalent “agency fee,” if they want to keep their jobs as TA’s and RA’s, the lawsuit says.And the newly formed GSU-UE is following in its parent’s activist footsteps, the lawsuit says.
We’ll have to wait and see whether the court will grant relief before September 30th, when the fall term begins at UChicago.
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