Graduate college students at Temple College have been on strike because the finish of January, in search of a rise in wages, extra reasonably priced healthcare, longer parental and bereavement depart, and higher working circumstances.
College within the Department of Philosophy at Temple have issued an announcement in assist of their graduate pupil employees. Dated February tenth, it states:
As members of the Division of Philosophy college, we assist the calls for of the Temple College Graduate College students’ Affiliation (TUGSA) of their present contract negotiations with the College. We additionally strongly oppose the College’s revocation of putting graduate college students’ tuition and medical insurance advantages. Our graduate college students depend on Temple medical insurance to satisfy their primary healthcare wants. Immediately threatening the well being and welfare of members of our pupil physique evidences a disregard for our neighborhood and undercuts the College’s claims to care about fairness.
Graduate employees are a key a part of our division and our college: with out them, we aren’t in a position to full our personal analysis, mentor undergraduate college students, or successfully educate college students in our programs. For over a yr, TUGSA has put ahead proposals to make sure honest wages, working circumstances, dependent well being care protection, and depart insurance policies for graduate TAs and RAs. These proposals would enhance the lives of graduate employees, in addition to benefiting our division and enhancing the standard of undergraduate instruction.
We consider that the members of TUGSA, even whereas they’re on strike, stay Temple graduate college students, and we hope that the College will chorus from unnecessarily harsh or disrespectful therapy of them.
Eli Alshanetsky, Katie Brennan, César Cabezas, Lee-Ann Chae, Eugene Chislenko, Paul Crowe, Kristin Gjesdal, Espen Hammer, Brian Hutler, Miriam Solomon, and David Wolfsdorf
Division of Philosophy, Temple College
You may be taught extra in regards to the strike here.
