Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage as School's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion

In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration of an illegal form of retaliation" for threatening to replace the striking student workers who do not return to work by Friday. On Monday, many Columbia faculty members walked out of their classes in a show of solidarity. Graduate student labor is the invisible labor of the university," says Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University. We're bankrupting a whole generation in order to provide more profits for the university."