USC Grad Student Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against University over Arrests

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As protests continue on campuses across North America, we go to the University of Southern California, where the union representing about 3,000 graduate student workers at USC has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty. The “rampant violence that they inflicted on our workers” violates the National Labor Relations Act, says Margaret Davis, president of UAW Local 872. “It was a clear act of retaliation because people were engaging in pro-Palestinian free speech, which they have a right to.”

Full article on the Democracy Now website at http://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/1/usc_police_arrests_student_protests_gaza

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