Thread by @AFTunion

.@rweingarten to @uicgeo: The bottom line is this, and you’ve all said it already: Together we can accomplish what we cannot alone. Now if you’re Bezos or Musk or DeVos, you can probably do a lot alone. But for us, we need to join together to have power. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: Power is not just a given. You have to take it. You have to build it. This is a time-honored tradition - joining together, waking together, arriving together. That’s how we build a better life for ourselves and our communities. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: What you’re doing in this quad is what the Amazon workers in Staten Island and Starbucks workers across the country are doing. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: What is frustrating about grad workers and adjuncts having to organize is: We tell folks that if they get an education, they can be anything they want. But then we don’t give the people who teach in those universities the life they deserve. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: This is why we need the power of the collective. Sometimes that power means withholding labor to get the better life you and our communities deserve. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: There is a righteousness that underlies this work. That underlies your fight. It doesn’t make sense when graduate workers are the backbone of a university, that you pay fees. How do you pauperize the people who educate our students? #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: That’s why you’re out here. To drill it in: That this isn’t fair. So people see what you are fighting for. #GEOonStrike

.@rweingarten: I’ve been through a lot of strikes. We do what we have to do. Because even in cities like Chicago - a union town. I need you to promise me, @uicgeo, to keep this solidarity through thick or thin. One day longer, one day stronger. We support you. #GEOonStrike