Graduate student workers at the University of Pittsburgh have voted in a landslide to unionize with the United Steelworkers after years of organizing and rising pro-labor sentiment in academia.
More than 97% of eligible voters went for a union just over a year after organizers kicked off their card campaign. They claimed majority support by January and unsuccessfully asked the university for voluntary union recognition.
There are roughly 2,100 graduate workers on campus who now have “a voice on the job,” the United Steelworkers said in a statement, through their ability to negotiate their pay, benefits and working conditions…