Pay Up or Picket: Uncovering Inequities of Graduate Student Strikes at Indiana University
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Graduate student workers have dealt with rising costs of rent, groceries, and gas while wages have remained stagnant. Many graduate students have struggled to make ends meet as they pursue advanced degrees and focus on research. As a result of frustration and inequality, graduate students at Indiana University (IU) have decided to go on strike. In addition to the strike, graduate students attempted to unionize to increase their wages and have a fairer working experience. This report addresses several ideologies regarding the strike including pay gaps, expenses, and fees, and minoritized student activism and lack of participation in the strike at IU. There is not much literature available regarding graduate student strikes due to its novelty in the academy. However, there is a rich history of minoritized student activism and how engaging in activism can be exhausting and tiring. This phenomenon has been used to understand why minoritized students at IU did not participate in the strike while emphasizing how change was made quickly because of activism from individuals in the majority population. In this paper, I will discuss the graduate student strike at IU and critically analyze reasons why minoritized students did not get involved in the picket lines.
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