UAW

3 briefs

conflict 2026-04-26

Harvard's Graduate Workers Are on Strike While Trump Freezes $2.2 Billion in Grants. The University Is Being Squeezed From Both Sides.

4,000 workers walked out demanding higher wages and visa protections for international students. Harvard's administration is simultaneously fighting a federal funding freeze, a tax on its endowment, and threats to its nonprofit status. Everyone is using everyone else as leverage.

conflict 2026-04-22

Harvard's Grad Workers Are Striking for Wages. They're Also Striking Against ICE.

4,000 graduate workers walked off the job at one of the world's wealthiest universities. The demands mix pay parity with immigration protections in a way Harvard cannot easily split. That's the point.

power 2026-04-17

Sanders and the UAW Say AI Will Do to Factory Workers What NAFTA Did. They Are Probably Right.

Bernie Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain held a Capitol Hill press conference warning that AI could wipe out 600,000 Midwest manufacturing jobs. Nobody in Congress is drafting a response.