Daily News | More student workers are forming unions — and striking — at universities in Philly and beyond
At the University of Pennsylvania, students who work as residence hall assistants have filed with the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election that, if successful, would allow them to form a union.
It’s also not a coincidence that the push for better pay and benefits comes as colleges are facing perhaps one of their greatest financial challenges, given inflation, “It really is a confluence of some challenges that by themselves would be very difficult. Together, they put considerable pressure on institutions.”‘They’ve always been at the mercy of the universities’
. It was the largest-ever among academic workers, according to their union, UAW Local 2865, with the resulting contract covering 36,000 graduate students.
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