Five years ago, Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania (GET-UP) tried and failed to unionize the University of Pennsylvania's graduate students. Today, they've announced that they're back: and this time more than 1,900 Penn doctoral, master's, and undergraduate student workers have joined them.
The move comes as student bodies at other Ivy League universities have moved to unionize–Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Columbia have all seen high profile fights or efforts in recent months. The University of Pennsylvania itself has also been a hotbed of union activity in the past two months: besides the second effort of GET-UP, the university is facing unionization from its resident assistants and Penn Medicine residents because of its failure to provide adequate pay, adequate benefits, adequate living arrangements, and adequate resources to either group. (You won't be surprised to learn it's much the same with GET-UP.)
Because of how recently the union went public, that's about all the information there is so far. However, the union is holding a rally at 3pm tomorrow local time to kick off the second unionization attempt, so there's that: