Inside Higher Ed: State of the TA Unions
The video had the same amateur quality as those that circulate on YouTube and other Internet sites. Set to the lyrics of “We’re Not Going to Take It,” a handheld camera followed friends of the graduate student unionization movement to a New York University alumni fund-raising event this past year that featured the unions’ public enemy of the moment, NYU President John Sexton.
The party crashers did their best to disrupt the function, and the roughly 100 labor organizers from around the country who watched the screening on Friday — some of whom appeared in the footage — cheered the effort. If that wasn’t enough to stir the audience at the start of the 15th annual Coalition of Graduate Employees Union conference, in Philadelphia, former Yale University graduate student Carlos Aramayo’s challenge to his “brothers and sisters” set the tone.
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