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Unions Support Student Protestors Against Campus Administrators and Police
Labor Notes ^ | May 14, 2024 | Caitlyn Clark

Posted on 05/30/2024 8:51:20 AM PDT by Salman

As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved.

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide. The protesting students are calling for full disclosure of their universities’ finances and divestment from all financial ties to weapons manufacturers and Israel’s war on Gaza.

Unionized academic workers are demanding decision-making power over their work and what it’s used for. For instance, academic workers in the astronomy department of the University of California Santa Cruz have organized to refuse to apply for or accept funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, weapons manufacturers, and military contractors.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; domesticenemies; education; hamas; palestine; rterrorism; unions
No more union products or services for me.

I wasn't particularly pro-union before, but now I will look for the union label and avoid it.

1 posted on 05/30/2024 8:51:20 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

The Bastards should be forced in court to watch every single video the terrorists made of themselves committing the most egregious acts of brutality upon the Israelis ever known by man. Acts upon the aged, women and children, infants, those carrying babies, unarmed men hacked to pieces with garden tools, set on fire, medically tortured captives, etc., ad nauseam. Forced to watch every second of it before being loaded up on military transports and deported to Gaza.


2 posted on 05/30/2024 9:13:05 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Salman

Commies (union punks and college punks) have to stick together.


3 posted on 05/30/2024 9:13:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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Will graduates still keep funding the universities which allow protests without accountability?


4 posted on 05/30/2024 9:32:02 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Commies (union punks and college punks) have to stick together.

The former use the latter as useful, energetic idiots

Labor unions are a sensible concept that puts balance in the marketplace, unfortunately they have been traditionally used as a front for communist efforts.

Construction trade union workers, generally well-trained, ware often replaced by smaller contractors with the multitude of cheap non-union illegals, 6 to a van.

5 posted on 05/30/2024 10:09:36 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Can't vote for the "lesser of two evils"? Then vote against the Greater Evil. )
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The former use the latter as useful, energetic idiots


What the latter doesn’t realize is that when the former takes power, the latter will be first against the wall.


6 posted on 05/30/2024 10:11:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

The headline should be that high ranking union officials support student protestors. Go ask the rank and file if they support a bunch of spoiled, commmie protestors and you’ll get a rude answer.

Saw a video clip of a NY reporter asking blue collar worker in a safety helmet and vest if he was surpised about Trumps support in NYC, he wasn’t surprised at all. The reporter asked what the guy thought of Biden, and the guy said F*** Biden right on camera.

Gonna be a bad day at the polls for Dems in November.


7 posted on 05/30/2024 10:31:09 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: frog in a pot
I was in a labor union for years back in the 70’s and 80’s.

Best thing I ever did was to get out of it.

Unionism doesn't create wealth. It siphons it off. No union ever has, ever did or ever will create a single job. Not one.

8 posted on 05/30/2024 8:40:24 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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But what would happen if there weren’t Unions?


9 posted on 05/30/2024 8:41:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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A lot more! A lot more, trust me.


10 posted on 05/30/2024 8:53:13 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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The PBS Frontline documentary, “Crisis on Campus,” examines how university leaders, some of whom have faced congressional hearings, navigated the challenges of responding to heated rhetoric and division on their campuses and balancing free speech with the need to prevent harassment and discrimination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESNxDn6Efs


11 posted on 06/13/2024 12:22:12 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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Always thought it was the job of a school of any kind to teach, not indoctrinate.

But then what do I know about education today.

Seems the longer kids stay in school the dumber they get.

And more violent.


12 posted on 06/22/2024 2:22:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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