Posted on Oct 19, 2023
Not just autoworkers: Grad students make up a growing share of UAW members
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On a recent Saturday, a crowd marched in the rain outside a Stellantis parts distribution center in Tappan, N.Y.
Joining the striking autoworkers were others members of the United Auto Workers union, including some hailing from completely different lines of work.
"It was really awesome to see how much we had in common," says Andrea Joseph, a postdoctoral fellow from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who studies pregnancy.
These days, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education. They include graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants, clerical and technical workers, adjunct professors and postdocs.
On a recent Saturday, a crowd marched in the rain outside a Stellantis parts distribution center in Tappan, N.Y.
Joining the striking autoworkers were others members of the United Auto Workers union, including some hailing from completely different lines of work.
"It was really awesome to see how much we had in common," says Andrea Joseph, a postdoctoral fellow from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who studies pregnancy.
These days, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education. They include graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants, clerical and technical workers, adjunct professors and postdocs.
Not just autoworkers: Grad students make up a growing share of UAW members
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