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Cara Page on Astrea Foundation; Columbia Grad. Student Strike
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On the May 1st edition of Out-FM:
Cara Page on the Astrea Lesbian Foundation
Cara Page of Astrea Foundation
May Day Coverage of Columbia Grad Student Strike (at 17:58)
Columbia Graduate Worker Strike
Graduate Students at Columbia University began a week long strike last Tuesday to demand that Columbia negotiate in good faith with the union. Graduate students make up a large educated labor force for the university with work duties ranging from research to teaching undergraduate students.
Support is swelling for the union with hundreds of faculty members calling on the university to respect the vote and negotiate, as well as hundreds of community and elected leaders, and over 1600 alumni supporting bargaining.
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However Columbia opposes the unionization plan and negotiations, the provost, John Coatsworth wrote in an essay sent to many staff and faculty:” …we hope supporters of GWC-UAW will consider the potential impact of actions they describe as "disruptive to the University" and instead take the more constructive steps necessary to ensure that the federal courts have a chance to determine with finality if student teaching and research assistants are employees under federal labor law.”
The provost wrote: “Columbia has long supported unions on campus and collectively bargains contracts with more than a dozen unions representing thousands of unionized employees.” But the Columbia Daily Spectator reports that in another case of unionization on campus Healthworkers at “Primary Care at Columbia” remain without a contract, two years after they began. These workers are poorly paid, averaging only $30,000/year. Similarly Barnard College’s contingent faculty faced resistance
Read more: Cara Page on Astrea Foundation; Columbia Grad. Student Strike
Finding the Queer Radical Past; & UN Commission on the Status of Women
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Tuesday March 27th at 9pm on WBAI/NY 99.5FM and streaming at wbai.org
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On Tuesday's show John Riley brings us part 1 of the keynote speech by Prof. Emily Hobson at a February 2018 conference called: "Finding the Queer Radical Past" which commemorates a moment when LGBTQ politics were intimately bound up with anti-racism and left solidarity movements: against apartheid, war, and US imperialism. The conference was held in Amherst Massachusettes. The conference was organized by: UMass Amherst Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies; Department of History; Stonewall Center; Advocacy, Inclusion, and Support Programs Cluster of Student Affairs and Campus Life.
Naomi Brussel brings us coverage of this years UN Commission on the Status of Women.