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September 9, 2020

Graduate Students Strike in Michigan, Form New Union in Arizona
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In labor news, graduate student instructors at the University of
Michigan have gone on strike in part to protest the school's safety
plans around COVID-19, as well as the university's ties to law
enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or
ICE.

Meanwhile, University of Arizona employees have officially established a
union, after months of denouncing the university's reopening plan and
following a series of furloughs and layoffs during the COVID-19
pandemic. The union has recruited over 200 members so far and will
represent current and former U of A faculty, student workers and staff.


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