Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
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Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#2A grad student strike. They're striking as employees, not students.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#3For reference, during the recent UC-wide strike, student strikers were allowed to keep their tuition remission (however, the university is clawing back paychecks for striking workers, as they are legally allowed to do. We had strike pay anyway, so it's fine)
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
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Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#5As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation.
Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I cannot imagine how the university's legal counsel signed off on this.
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This isn't a halting of paychecks during the strike. Tuition remission is awarded at the beginning of each semester a student is working. This would be like clawing back a signing bonus made to workers before a strike action, which from a cursory google search seems to be legally ambiguous at best.
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This isn't a halting of paychecks during the strike. Tuition remission is awarded at the beginning of each semester a student is working. This would be like clawing back a signing bonus made to workers before a strike action, which from a cursory google search seems to be legally ambiguous at best.
They arent working this semester, you can't take a signing bonus then not show up for work.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#8Curious about what the university schedule is for withdrawing for the semester, and whether it's feasible for the students to take a semester off.
Re: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
#9Bone headed move. They must have miscalculated if they think the students will cave to this pressure.
Also, how can they take away tuition reimbursement for the whole semester if the strike hasnt been that long?
Garbage administration. I hope the students win and that this isnt the new normal.
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People are not complaining that they are not paid for the period they are working. They are complaining that participating in the strike has revoked their tuition remission for the entire semester. Idiot leader. This will play out incredibly poorly. Grad students put up with more than they ought to already.