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ncfcatalyst · 2 years

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The New College RA crisis: overworked, understaffed and underpaid

The car doors click, tearful goodbyes are had and then they’re on their way back home. For many students, moving to college is their first time living away from their families. It can be isolating, being thrown into the college lifestyle— but Residential Advisors (RAs) are placed in dormitories to help ease this transition and provide guidance to students. But this semester, New College has been…

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#housing #on campus housing #resident advisor #residential life #student employee #student housing #student labor

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thebereatorch · 2 years

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Students Organizing for Higher Pay

By Andi Mellon Official Statement of Purpose We are concerned students and faculty members of Berea College seeking to improve the quality of life for student workers. Student workers strive to contribute to the campus community by performing work well done in their labor positions. In return, we are asking for greater autonomy, respect, and dignity. Being paid below the federal minimum wage…

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#berea #berea college #Berea Torch #minimum wage minimum wage Kentucky #Student labor

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archaeologysucks · 8 days

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My first CRM job in 2006 paid $12.50/hr. I had 2 masters degrees and was hired for my expertise in identifying fragmentary human remains and fetal remains. It was 4 years before I found a CRM job that paid more than $14/hr. I now make a hair over $30/hr, but considering I have been doing this for almost 20 years, that probably still isn’t nearly what I should be making, especially considering irregular hours and last minute cancelations mean I rarely see a full week’s pay.

#archaeology #archaeologists #organized labor #labor unions #fair wages #i am absurdly lucky not to be drowning in student loan debt

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acelizystudying · 8 months

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first general chemistry laboratory demonstration: survived!🌞🦩👩🏻‍🍼🧪

• bionics & laboratory literally are my lives, i’m so into this life i created to myself (even with the countinous stress factors, running out of caffeine & insomnia:D)

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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On Wednesday, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) reintroduced a proposal to make higher education free at public schools for most Americans — and pay for it by taxing Wall Street.

The College for All Act of 2023 would massively change the higher education landscape in the U.S., taking a step toward Sanders’s long-standing goal of making public college free for all. It would make community college and public vocational schools tuition-free for all students, while making any public college and university free for students from single-parent households making less than $125,000 or couples making less than $250,000 — or, the vast majority of families in the U.S.

The bill would increase federal funding to make tuition free for most students at universities that serve non-white groups, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It would also double the maximum award to Pell Grant recipients at public or nonprofit private colleges from $7,395 to $14,790.

If passed, the lawmakers say their bill would be the biggest expansion of access to higher education since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Higher Education Act, a bill that would massively increase access to college in the ensuing decades. The proposal would not only increase college access, but also help to tackle the student debt crisis.

“Today, this country tells young people to get the best education they can, and then saddles them for decades with crushing student loan debt. To my mind, that does not make any sense whatsoever,” Sanders said. “In the 21st century, a free public education system that goes from kindergarten through high school is no longer good enough. The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families.”

Debt activists expressed support for the bill. “This is the only real solution to the student debt crisis: eliminate tuition and debt by fully funding public colleges and universities,” the Debt Collective wrote on Wednesday. “It’s time for your member of Congress to put up or shut up. Solve the root cause and eliminate tuition and debt.”

These initiatives would be paid for by several new taxes on Wall Street, found in a separate bill reintroduced by Sanders and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California) on Wednesday. The Tax on Wall Street Speculation would enact a 0.5% tax on stock trades, a 0.1% tax on bonds and a 0.005% tax on trades on derivatives and other types of assets.

The tax would primarily affect the most frequent, and often the wealthiest, traders and would be less than a typical fee for pension management for working class investors, the lawmakers say. It would raise up to $220 billion in the first year of enactment, and over $2.4 trillion over a decade. The proposal has the support of dozens of progressive organizations as well as a large swath of economists.

“Let us never forget: Back in 2008, middle class taxpayers bailed out Wall Street speculators whose greed, recklessness and illegal behavior caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, life savings, and ability to send their kids to college,” said Sanders. “Now that giant financial institutions are back to making record-breaking profits while millions of Americans struggle to pay rent and feed their families, it is Wall Street’s turn to rebuild the middle class by paying a modest financial transactions tax.”

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runningoutofbooks · 2 years

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I see so many people irl saying ‘student loan forgiveness is unfair to those who’ve already paid of their debt’ like bitch how selfish do you have to be to not want someone else to have something nice because you can’t have it?

That would be like me saying ‘nobody is allowed to eat ice cream because it’s unfair to those who are lactose intolerant’

Or ‘Child labor laws are unfair to all the children who worked and died in factories’

I can’t even imagine being that far up my own ass

#rant #student loans #loan forgiveness #tw child labor #tw death #swearing

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lilithism1848 · 23 days

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emgoesmed · 9 months

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9/5/2023

Worked 2/3 days during Labor Day weekend but really enjoyed my day off hanging out with friends at the pier. Not pictured but deserves a mention: vanilla frozen custard with fresh strawberries and bananas in it. 🥰

#emgoesmed #studyblr #studyspo #med student #med school #med studyblr #ms4 #weekend #Labor Day weekend #holiday #summer #swimming #lake #reading #bookblr #legends and lattes

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vaguelyaperson · 7 months

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Bruh why does it feel like I'm the only one pointing out that primary elections are a thing?

We were all so gungho about primaries and nearly got Bernie to the general election, but then y'all seemed to abandon the concept when we got Joe instead. Don't you fuckin see??? Bernie's near victory in the primaries is WHY the Dems (under Biden) have been so progressive lately about student loans, unions, ect. It's because the Democrats are aware there's a large voting bloc that won't support them unless they have progressive policies.

Y'all can do that again in the 2024 primaries!!!

(I'm currently compiling a list) but there are a number of Democrat pro-Israel incumbent House and Senate reps up against better Democrat candidates in the 2024 spring primaries.

One example race is for California Senator; former House Rep Barbara Lee is running, and she has been among the few 18 House reps to cosponsor a bill for ceasefire. If you vote in the primaries, you could have 🍉 Barbara Lee as your Democrat Senator on the November ticket! 🍉

You can vote against the guys who let 10k+ people die without voting Republican or giving up your vote altogether.

Come the general election, we vote Democrat no matter what, because it is leagues better than the alternative.

But in the meantime: primaries, primaries, PRIMARIES

#us politics #us elections #2024 elections #2024 presidential election #us senate #us house of representatives #primary elections #🍉🍉🍉#ceasefire #free gaza #palestine #student loans #pro union #labor rights #starbucks boycott #eat the rich

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tenderanarchist · 10 months

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Tufts University Resident Assistants (RAs) authorized a strike earlier this week in response to Tufts’ failure to make any offer for compensation in the form of a stipend. RAs at Tufts are currently only compensated with housing- they need to live on campus to do their jobs- but no stipend or wages during the semester or the three weeks of unpaid training they must attend in early august before other students are on campus. They also do not receive a meal plan.

Tufts recently sent an email communication to university students about Union activity on campus, failing to mention their bad faith attempt at bargaining over the past six months, and ending with a threat against potential strikers.

This portion of the email reads, “We anticipate everyone involved will respect our community values and one another’s right to enjoy the new semester without disruption. While we support the units’ engagement with our campus, any actions or activities that create a hostile campus environment, endanger public safety, or violate our Student Code of Conduct will be addressed by the appropriate members of our staff.”

This is a clear threat of conduct proceedings and potential expulsion against student workers who have a legally protected right to strike without retaliation. OPEIU local 153 is filing an unfair labor practices suit against Tufts University as a result of this threat and others from Tufts lawyers in bargaining meetings.

Support ULTRA, the Tufts RA Union, by signing this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-tufts-resident-assistants-deserve-pay/

#Union #student workers #union solidarity #support unions #opeiu #union organizing #university #tufts university #colleges #unfair labor practices #strike #Union strike #student rights

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ncfcatalyst · 2 years

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OP-ED: On sinking and swimming, a day in the life of an NCF student employee

Anybody who spends a week on the residential side of campus will quickly figure out that this school runs on student labor like America runs on Dunkin’. Between Teacher’s Assistants (TAs), Resident Advisors (RAs), Student Writing Assistants (SWAs), the New College Student Alliance (NCSA), admissions employees, success coaches and several others, a heaping handful of broke twenty-somethings…

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#ncsa #op-ed #resident advisor #student employee #student labor #student writing assistant #swa #ta #teaching assistants

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cloverkingsmith · 5 months

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MY AVATARSONA MAKING A COMEBACK FOR THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL YEAHHHH

⚰️ avatar of the buried ⛓️

#tma #tmp #podcast #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #the buried #I love her I love her I LOVE THE BURIED TAKE MEEEEE #she’s got: labored breathing. clothes too tight. always hunched. leaking earth. increases air pressure. always has her chains.#SHE HAS IT ALL FOLKS #her role in tma was an assistant from america who succombed to the crushing hopelessness of her student debts #will she have a role in tmp? who knows! probably not bUT ALSO MAYBE time will tell #tmasona

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mostlysignssomeportents · 8 months

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Why did Biden block the rail strike and then JOIN a UAW picket-line?

Biden broke the railway strike.

Biden joined the autoworkers’ strike.

Does this make Biden a hypocrite?

Obviously.

But more to the point, it shows that Biden’s actions are driven by expedience as much as they are by principle.

Biden, after all, is a career politician, who was sold to voters on the basis of his deal-making ability, his history getting things done in bipartisan smoke-filled rooms.

Biden doubtless has principles, and maybe they’re even good principles, but when those principles conflicted with “good politics,” politics won and principles lost.

Seen in that light, Biden’s decision to join the autoworkers’ strike makes perfect sense. With support for unions at their highest point in two generations, joining an autoworkers’ strike is good politics.

-What to do with the Democrats: They want to do it? Let's make them do it.

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

#bidenomics #politics #labor #uaw #rail strikes #strike debt #student debt #free state college

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catdotjpeg · 8 months

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League of Filipino Students (LFS) PUP joined forces for a lightning rally at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to condemn the ruthless killing of labor leader Jude Fernandez from Kilusang Mayo Uno and the news of the kidnapping of three youth leaders, Alia Encela, Job David, and Peter del Monte.

Karapatan Southern Tagalog confirmed that the killer 203rd Infantry Brigade and the 4th Infantry Battalion have been holding the three young IP advocates in Bansud, Oriental Mindoro for two weeks.

Meanwhile, Jude Fernandez was shot in his own home in Binangonan, Rizal by the fascist PNP-CIDG. Jude Fernandez is a well-known labor leader who is organizing and fighting for the right to work and liveable wages.

We join the scholars of the people in calling for justice for all workers murdered by the US-Marcos-Duterte regime, and the immediate release of the three youth leaders.

Justice for Jude Fernandez! Free Alia, Job, and Peter! Stop the attacks on the people!

-- League of Filipino Students PUP, 4 Oct 2023

#league of filipino students #youth activism #manila #philippines #oriental mindoro #rizal #labor rights #indigenous rights #anti fascism #murder m /

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism · 1 year

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By Scott Scheffer

University of Southern California shuttle bus drivers have petitioned for a union election which is now scheduled for March 23. Graduate students at USC won union representation within weeks of the successful strike by their UCLA counterparts. USC’s shuttle drivers are now gearing up to make it a trifecta.

#bus drivers #USC #union #protest #strike #los angeles #labor #workers #class struggle #students #Struggle La Lucha

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nando161mando · 4 months

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Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which occurred on February 8, 1968 in South Carolina, when highway patrolmen opened fire on black student protesters from South Carolina State, who were trying to integrate a bowling alley. They killed 3 African American students and wounded 33. They were the first student demonstrators killed by the police in the 1960s.

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