Amir Fleischmann is a PhD student and political theorist at the University of Michigan, as well as chair of GEO’s Publicity Committee and a bargaining team member of GEO.
On March 29, graduate student workers at the University of Michigan began a strike over what they describe as the university’s refusal to negotiate in good faith. We spoke to striking workers about the walkout, the longest in their union’s 49-year history.
University of Michigan graduate workers are on strike right now — not only for better protections against coronavirus, but also to defund the police.
The “alt-right” and Israeli settlers have a shared fervor for ethno-nationalism, Islamophobia, and racism.
Austerity measures don’t actually save money. But they do disempower workers. Which is why governments pursue them in the first place.