Protesting, Dissent, In Addition To Unionization
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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November 20th was a perplexing 24-hour interval for unopen to on the UC campuses. As AFSCME in addition to UAW held a articulation strike, many students in addition to media people wanted to know why graduate students would overstep away out on bang to back upwards generally manual workers. Of course, the argue for this back upwards was that both unions were protesting against the feel that the UC management does non abide by collective activity in addition to collective bargaining. Moreover, what actually scares in addition to confuses many people inward ability is the sight of seeing both service in addition to professional person workers protesting together.
People inward ability must know that a coalition of organized professional person in addition to service workers could hold out 1 of the alone groups rigid plenty to halt the neoliberal political economy, in addition to when you lot throw recent immigrants in addition to indebted students into the mix, a real threatening progressive coalition emerges. Although unopen to may say that the protests in addition to bang were actually alone well-nigh pensions in addition to pay, it is clear that a to a greater extent than primal democratic yearning was evident inward these actions. Not alone produce workers in addition to students experience that they produce non accept a phonation at their ain institutions, simply they likewise experience alienated yesteryear the soundless forces of global capitalism in addition to austerity politics.
AFSCME did a real smart matter yesteryear working alongside various pupil groups to shape a various coalition of workers, students, in addition to faculty, in addition to piece the peaceful demonstrations did non generate much police delineate presence, recent trends advise that in 1 lawsuit organized dissent becomes visible in addition to disruptive, it volition hold out countered inward a forceful way. Let us promise that this is the starting fourth dimension of a to a greater extent than forceful arrangement of the people who brand this academy work.