GW has taken advantage of its workers for far too long. GWU2, the GWU graduate worker union, has been in biweekly bargaining for ten months and needs a fair contract now! All workers and members of the GW community need university leadership to stand up for their rights as academics, researchers, students, staff, and more.
In contract negotiations with graduate workers, the university has consistently resisted GWU2's attempts to enshrine protections for vulnerable communities as well as the investments they will need to make to improve working conditions and the quality of teaching at GW. On Friday, February 28th we learned that GW sold VSTC to Amazon to build a data center without consulting the folks who work there or the staff at The GW Museum and the Textile Museum, despite the fact that the campus houses their entire 25,000 piece collection. They have also excluded workers who have collective bargaining representatives from automatically receiving the one time bonus!