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Graduate student workers at Clark University in Worcester have voted 100 to 7 to join the Teamsters in a union election.

Working Mass spoke with three members of IUPAT DC 35 about the picket outside the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel, which is paying out-of-state, non-union workers to renovate rooms at substandard wages.

Clark University Graduate Workers United (CUGWU-Teamsters) gathered with supporters on campus Wednesday to urge the administration to voluntarily recognize their union.

We spoke with William Westgard-Cruice and Patrick Geiger, two members of the CUGWU-Teamsters organizing committee, about what drove their decision to organize, the administration’s “mental gymnastics,” and how grad student workers fit into the labor movement.

Graduate student workers at Clark University in Worcester have formally announced their intent to unionize with Teamsters Local 170.