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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

SHOCKING: Us student worker unions face threats under second trump administration - What They Never Told You

people carry signs outside a big white building
Hundreds of University of California graduate workers and supporters on a strike to decry the university’s treatment of students and employees in 2022. Photograph: Brontë Wittpenn/AP

Student workers are bracing for the incoming Trump administration to “constrict or eliminate” their labor rights, after a surge in union organizing on college campuses.

Nearly 45,000 student employees formed unions between 2022 to 2024 between 44 bargaining units. As of earlier this year, an estimated 38% of all graduate student employees in the US were unionized.

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