BREAKING After a 6-week-long walkout, striking graduate students ratified a tentative agreement with Temple University on Monday.
The university said about 20% of graduate student teaching and research assistants did not continue to work, but the union said at least twice that many were on strike. Many classes were moved online to accommodate new instructors’ schedules and following reports of intimidation of students and instructors, the university said., giving them a month to pay in full or face a late fee and a financial hold that would bar them from registering for more classes.
Late February, the union overwhelmingly rejected a proposed new contract which Temple said included wage increases in each of the contract's four years, as well as a one-time payment. The announcement on the university’s website said graduate students would retain free health insurance for themselves but didn’t mention insurance for dependents, which the union has sought.
The union sought to raise average pay from $19,500 a year to more than $32,000, while the university offered 3% raises that would result in average pay of about $22,000 over the four-year contract. The strikers also wanted health care coverage for dependents and longer paid parental leave and bereavement leave.
While replying to their announcement Thursday night on twitter, the union said they made “meaningful, material gains on every major issue we set out to address in bargaining,” including wages, dependent care, leave policies and working conditions.
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