Thread by @mayamikdashi

1/ quotes from interview with Donna Murch & Todd Wolfson on the fight at universities

"We did this to save staff & adjunct jobs. The university couldn't make the faculty furlough, but we said we’d do it to create solidarity, to protect staff & adjuncts"

jacobinmag.com/2021/04/worker…

We held town halls with ppl from the diff unions, that made legible the experience of all kinds of workers...with the children of dining hall workers & staff who were going to lose their tuition remission. That’s the thing about solidarity: it has to be lived & it has to be built

3/The key piece was to stop them from laying off more staff. We got a contractual agreement to no more layoffs for the staff unions in the agreement through January 1, 2022. We got them to roll back some restrictions on hiring adjuncts

4/What we ended up getting ...was still the first of its kind for a public university: Any doctoral student who is a candidate and coming off funding next year can get an extension. It’s a major step forward, but we’re going to keep fighting on it, and we’re going to win

we’ll be calling for in the months & years is a Rutgers worker & student council. The Board of Governors is not who should be making decisions. It’s the staff person, the faculty, the dining-facilities worker, the students &the community we’re in who should be making decisions.