Daily News | As union-forming efforts proliferate at Penn, university workers say organizing ‘isn’t going to stop’
Several hundred people gathered near the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library last week, many carrying posters emblazoned with the United Auto Workers logo and personalized with slogans about their worker grievances.their frustration over long hours, low pay, and lack of resources for international students. Onlookers shouted labor chants in unison between each testimonial.
“We didn’t get to this point by standing around and cheering. We got to this point because we spent actually thousands of hours organizing,” said Murray, a political science Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at Penn. “That isn’t going to stop today because as I said earlier, it’s just the beginning.”The rally was held by GET-UP, a group of Penn doctoral, masters and undergraduate student workers aiming to unionize.
, but it may not be the only one. In the last two years, three other groups of Penn employees have pursued unionization.on whether to unionize. Another group of workers, roughly 200 resident assistants and graduate resident assistants, recently filed papers with theMeanwhile, Penn Museum Workers United, which formed in 2021 to represent roughly 30 museum workers, continues to bargain for its first contract.
“Nothing could be more exciting or more needed than this union wave at Penn,” said Lu Denegre, a conservation technician at the Penn Museum, during the GET-UP rally. “Unions belong at Penn.”
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