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Earlier this week, SENS—Student Employees at The New School—went on strike following several months of failed collective bargaining and working off-contract with The New School. Today, it seems they've come away with a very successful tentative agreement because of that strike action!
The New School, for the unaware, is a private university which describes itself as a place for "scholars, artists, and designers [to] come together to challenge convention and create positive change." Although it has historically been an avenue for progressive causes and activism, The New School has, to put it mildly, struggled to live up to that vision on campus. When it comes to collective bargaining, they have a poor track record. This is actually SENS' second strike since forming: they previously went on strike in 2018 to win an initial bargaining agreement with the university. The New School is also currently fighting New Student Workers Union—which is attempting to form the first wall-to-wall graduate and undergraduate student worker union—at the NLRB.
All this to say: bargaining with The New School is like pulling teeth. But SENS has been undeterred in fighting their university and when the university refused to budge, began a strike action on March 6. Three days later on March 8, the university came to a tentative agreement with SENS and yesterday SENS began touting what looks like a pretty solid tentative agreement. According to them, they've won:
As reported by 404 Media, famous internet puzzle rightsholder and imperialist rag The New York Times has decided that they own the exclusive copyright to 5x6 grid games using green and yellow to indicate correct placement of glyphs.
Triage below the cut.
“Independent organisations such as the UK-based collective Forensic Architecture, which uses architectural mapping to investigate state violence and human rights abuses, are also documenting evidence of the destruction of heritage, which they say is deliberate.”
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