69. Academic Labor United: Organizing Graduate Workers at the University of Hawaiʻi

A conversation about graduate worker organizing with Dianne Deauna and Ken Reyes, two Executive Committee members of Academic Labor United (ALU).

ALU organizes graduate workers of the University of Hawaiʻi system to empower them to hold their employers accountable. Even as graduate worker labor is recognized by the University as fundamental to its success, their work is continually devalued by the State and University administration which refuse to pay them a living wage, have no viable process for addressing grievances, and have failed multiple times to keep graduate workers safe in their working environments. ALU is fighting to establish a graduate worker union, which would be the first new public employee union in Hawaiʻi in 50 years.

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