U of M graduate student workers to protest fees

The march will start at the Social Sciences Tower on the West Bank and end at Coffman Memorial Union. A short rally will occur before and after the march with a diverse array of graduate student worker speakers. Organizers expect over 100 participants.

Graduate Student Workers United, a group of teaching and research assistants dedicated to defending the rights of all graduate students, ends its month-long “Graduate Students Shouldn’t Pay Fees” petition drive with this campus protest.

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GSWU hopes to have a fifth of the graduate workers sign this petition by the time of the march. University professors, chairs of departments, directors of graduate studies, frontline university staff, and undergraduates have all joined GSWU in solidarity by signing the petition.

GSWU is demanding that university administrators reduce graduate student fees by $200. Currently graduate students pay over $500 in student fees each semester—which amounts to an average of 10 percent of their university pay received as teaching or research assistants. This pay cut impacts graduate students in 22 departments, from Forest Resources to Educational Psychology.

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GSWU argues that this fee reduction can be easily achieved by reallocating a mere $900,000. For example, the top administrators at the university, 100 of which make over $200,000 a year, could lower their salaries by 2.8 percent to cover the fee reduction. Graduate student workers, a class of workers who are overworked and underpaid, urgently need this fee reduction.

The march occurs the day before President Robert Bruininks delivers his State of the University address. On March 16, Bruininks announced an official university-wide pay cut of 1.15%.

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