When 1,500 part time professors at the New School walked out on strike last fall, thousands of their undergraduate students showed their support and solidarity by walking the picket line and, as the walkout wound down, occupying the university’s main student center for nine days.
But after the picket signs were packed into storage and students went home for winter break, undergraduates who work for the university as resident assistants, student assistants and in other positions were determined to not let the energy fizzle out, and the following semester, launched their own bid to unionize.
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