While GSU has made no formal announcement about what the job action will involve, graduate students—including thesis preceptors, graduate students teaching undergraduate classes, and other graduate student workers—have cancelled 10th-week classes, telling undergraduates they will be participating in a labor action from monday through wednesday of 10th week.Cognitive learning piaget thursday and friday of 10th week are reading period, meaning there are no scheduled classes during that time. It is unclear whether public demonstrations will continue past wednesday.Cognitive learning piaget

A graduate student strike during 10th week could delay spring-quarter grades. This could cause delays for graduating fourth years, who need their grades returned by next saturday at the latest.Cognitive learning piaget fourth-years who are currently enrolled in required courses, either for their major or the core, could be even more adversely affected, including potential delays to graduating.Cognitive learning piaget

Graduate student instructors have stated that they would communicate with fourth-years in their classes to work out a grading plan. Colaneri said that while potential delays to graduation are “the last thing that we want to happen to our students,” she and other graduate student workers “have got to really prioritize showing how important our work is.”

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When asked about how the university would respond, university spokesperson jeremy manier answered in a written statement, “the university has planned for a number of contingencies, and will be communicating with students to offer guidance in the event of a strike.Cognitive learning piaget we are committed to supporting our students’ successful completion of this academic quarter.”

In an e-mail to undergraduates on thursday night, dean of the college john boyer indicated that university administration is giving no ground and urged undergraduates to report graduate students participating in work stoppages.Cognitive learning piaget boyer further defined a bright-line for what constitutes “disruptive” work action: interfering with what he called “the right to freely enter and exit buildings, classrooms, workspaces, and areas where research is conducted.”

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The statement goes on to describe what GSU saw as a pattern of administrative stonewalling: “in our 2017 NLRB hearing, one dean referred to undergraduate learning from tas as a ‘byproduct’ of our on-the-job training.Cognitive learning piaget another testified that having a TA grade papers in a class of 19 was not a help to him. And the administration has showed how little they value us by continuing to stonewall GSU for over a year and a half, rather than recognizing our union.Cognitive learning piaget it is precisely because of our commitment to our students that we are willing to take this action to improve our working conditions--which are their learning conditions.”

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If the university were to voluntarily recognize GSU as the official labor representative of graduate student workers, the union would likely enter contract negotiations with the administration through a third-party arbiter.Cognitive learning piaget there, university administration and GSU might eventually sign a contract in which the university would be bound to negotiated concessions and reforms.Cognitive learning piaget

Many groups beyond GSU plan to express solidarity with the strikers. Although members of faculty forward, the union for non-tenure-track faculty at the university of chicago, are contractually precluded from striking, jason grunebaum, a representative for faculty forward, told the maroon in an e-mailed statement that members “may hold classes off campus, and we may join GSU on the picket lines—just as long as it’s not when we’re scheduled to teach.”

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GSU may also call on allies from the newly formed university of chicago labor council (UCLC), a coalition of labor organizations whose members range from nurses at the university of chicago medical center to janitors on university grounds.Cognitive learning piaget UCLC organized a demonstration this may day which was attended by hundreds of union members and supporters.

Further support may come from undergraduates and tenured professors.Cognitive learning piaget several tenured faculty have explored the option of holding class off campus. Student groups including the organization of black students have announced their solidarity.Cognitive learning piaget in a recent editorial for the maroon, students organizing united for labor (SOUL) called for undergrads to support GSU’s efforts.

“we think the most important way undergraduates can contribute is by not crossing the picket line — if your class is in a picketed building, do not go to class.Cognitive learning piaget you can also help by posting your support with the hashtag #yesgsu, wearing a GSU button, and signing our undergrad solidarity petition,” sam joyce, president of SOUL, told the maroon.Cognitive learning piaget

Editor’s note: GSU voted on whether to authorize an industrial action, which is a broad legal category of labor organizing that includes, but is not limited to, strike action.Cognitive learning piaget the word “strike” was not in GSU’s ballot questions. In this article and other reporting, however, the maroon has used the word “strike” colloquially—that is, interchangeably with the term “industrial action.”