I just came here to say Temple has one of the most incompetent university administrations that I've ever witnessed. Holy shit
I'm hoping they're at least competent enough to ensure the fire code of their administration buildings are still up to date...
WARNING WARNING GLOWBIPOC DETECTED 
I don't understand how you can be so evil and not realize you're the villain. They're going to lose this fight.
This just like my Avengers movie! 
Temple University has also removed pay and tuition benefits from all striking students.
Saw on Twitter, this real?
Yes, they sent this email to all TUGSA members currently on strike earlier today.
As far as I know, Temple is the first university to do this during a graduate employee strike.
Trailblazers 
It might not be, but this feels illegal. And its definitely immoral.
Less immoral than not doing your job and depriving paying students of their education?
stop shaming students are still attending classes taught by replacement professors
This is exactly what Temple wants, us to be blaming each other instead of the administration that refused to negotiate in good faith for an entire year. The university cannot punish you for refusing to break a strike, even though they are saying otherwise. Missing a class one time in week 4 to support your actual instructors is the least we can do for them considering what they are giving up to strike right now (pay, tuition, healthcare, job security)
Yeah, get wrapped up in this thing that has no impact on you so some whiny TA bastard can make a dollar more!
OP I hear you, BUT:
WHY did you have to take out loans? Why is tuition SO unbelievably expensive? Why did tuition go UP 3.9%?? Even though Temple made a PROFIT of about $240,000,000 last year? And the president makes a million dollars a year? And the dozens of vice presidents make 300,000 a year???
Temple wants to squash ALL resistance on campus so they can do this stuff to us.
If we want a chance to change this, we have to stand together AGAINST the millionaire prez.
How do we CHANGE this? We gotta stand with TUGSA for real!! And that means getting together with friends and refusing to go to class taught by scabs!!!!
i guarantee u this strike will not result in reduced tuition
Oh man, I'm glad the strikes that gave the US unions last century didn't rest on your shoulders. You have been conditioned to believe there is nothing you can do to better the current exploitative system (hint: Temple underpaying TAs is still way better than the way corporations exploit their workers).
If it had been up to you to strike, we'd still have a 6 day work week, 16 hour days, and child labor.
I DO feel for you. You are getting burned a bit by this. But you are already surrounded by a burning building. If you truly believe that burning building isn't going to impact your life, then I would have to assume you are well off enough to not be complaining in the first place.
To repeat: keeping your head down until you get your degree does not change the circumstances you will then find yourself in.
God, I fricking hate unions. I'd go back into the factory for 12-hour shifts seven days a week if I never had to hear a soy "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" activist ever again.
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Zoomers talk about unions and strikes like it's just another form of protesting like they're used to. They tell their teacher they're leaving class for whatever the current trendy cause is and get institutional support for doing so.
Strikes aren't like that. It's fight against powerful people who will do everything they can to stop you. Back in the day people fought and died for the right to unionize
I was in a union for awhile. It was a good thing, but I hate young people treating it casually.
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It's very cathartic to see them join a real strike as opposed to an institutionally backed "protest" with zero repercussions.
These r-slurs incessantly applaud themselves as standing up to oppression and "risking everything." Protesting against a prevailing power instead of protesting FOR them is a true paradigm shift. The panic that's setting in now from realizing this game wasn't rigged in their favor from the beginning this time is just delicious. There will be no courageous survivor participation trophy.
Rent is due now.
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GOOD post
These "people" need to see what fighting power actually looks like. No more performative bullshit that literally every institution of power will praise them for.
Lets see how much they're actually willing to sacrifice
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They also don't understand that functional unions depended on the businesses they worked for to exist. The downfall of the Teamsters wasn't because they were too weak to protest, it was that they sucked their host dry and lost power as the industries they leeched off of collapsed or were forced to automate due to crippling labor costs.
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Strikes were originally actually attacks on infrastructure. People think the pinketons were brought in to break up the number Peaceful protestors because r-slurred unionists wrote propaganda into the curriculum
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LMAO
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For your convenience.
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/r/LoveforTempleU when?
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What's tuition remission
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Temple would pay for their tuition. In other words, they believe the school should continue to pay for their tuition even when they are refusing to work.
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this is so beautiful
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Landpilled email
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twice in a row HOW
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Time to make some bets
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!blackjack666
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There is only slots
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It's true!
I check the source on you now after I got tricked
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me too,
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trickery knows no bounds, but he didn't even need it here
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He is truly blessed
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!slots200
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Grad students acting like their lives are so hard because they have to grade papers smdh. Youβre in a ridiculously privileged position to be able to spend all your time studying something youβre passionate about. You donβt have to get a PhD in comparative lit if it sucks so much. Wawa is always hiring.
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Grad school was the easiest part of my adult life
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You were not a PhD student, or are in a do-nothing discipline. There is no inbetween.
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I was a PhD student in a do-something discipline. Grad school was depressing af for other reasons, but honestly the work load wasn't insane.
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Every single PhD student in any sort of biomedical research I knew were constantly pulling 50-60+ hr weeks.
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you were friends with stupids apparently
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Maybe I'm badly calibrated but that's not a crazy work week.
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Do you suck your employers peepee as well at the end of the week?
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I donβt really have a βbossβ per se but I make a lot of money and like my job π€·ββοΈ
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This is entirely dependent if you are in STEM or not. If you're an engineering grad student, you are essentially slave labor for your advisor.
edit: I'm drunk so I have to specify your life is demonstrably shittier while in school because you are competing for future $300k+ jobs against a bunch of other egotistical neurodivergents, so your thesis better be fricking worth the work.
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I dunno, I was a grad student like this and now I have a PhD and a $300k+ job and even during grad school it really wasn't that bad. A lot of grad students are in fact unbelievably lazy and incompetent. I was depressed during grad school but not because I was working too much.
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I believe the lazy and incompetent part. One of my friend's grad student cohorts is about to get arrested because she wanted to commit corporate espionage instead of just studying in class, but I digress.
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Was there at least money to be made?
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There might have been if she didn't apply to a security clearance and have the feds find out about her espionage attempts over Microsoft Teams.
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can i have some
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What kind of low iq neurodivergent gets a PhD in engineering?
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Also, if they wanted cheaper tuition, they should be demanding that various obese admin roles and departments be eliminated, but no, it's just "muh free money"
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Fun fact: that's how Kent State happened. The hurr-amerikkka-ebil crowd like to pretend the National Guard was called in on a whim to a routine, drum-circle-kumbaayaa hippie protest, when in reality they lot the fricking ROTC building on fire.
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I'm not going to fact-check this because I hate gommunists. :DD
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I actually didn't know that. It's not mentioned on the Wikipedia page under background. Just hidden even further downpage under timeline.
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I'm not sure why they think they should be getting any pay or benefits for periods in which they are β without authorization β not performing work. A strike isn't free PTO.
Kind of wish our graduate students had been actively striking back when I was in school so that I could have been a SCAB myself.
Mind you, most PhD programs are funded, so a good deal of the people complaining are already having their school paid for.
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The graduate students want higher wages, better healthcare and parental leave. School said no, so the union members decided to strike.
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I get a raging boner that lasts for more than four hours when I hear about whiny grad students striking, as if anyone gives a shit about them
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as a grad student wtf just quit or put the baby up for adoption
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Leftoids have ruined unions for people who actually use cowtools for a living like real men
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It's what you get when you let your movement be led by people whose chief concern is terminology.
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ITcels like half of drama arenβt real men
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That's right, real men work blue collar.
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Unions for privileged, educated professionals are terrible for society, and yet they are the only ones that exist. A big part for why American healthcare is so expensive is because doctors have an incredibly powerful union that is allowed to function as a cartel and artificially lower the supply of doctors, and by extension artificially inflate their wages far beyond that of any other country on Earth. And no one says a god darn thing about it.
Unions should exist for people like miners, tradesmen, industrial workers, not wealthy bloodlines who get to sit in an air conditioned office 8 hours a day.
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Do they expect to continue to get paid despite refusing to work? Does that happen at all?
That just makes me lose even more respect for other universities.
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Pretty sure unions had dedicated funds to pay partial salaries to striking employees, which if true means they didn't get their employer to pay them
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They do, at least good unions do. In fact that's a big part of what union dues are supposed to be for.
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That was my understanding of dues, but the only unions I've ever been in have been dogshit/I didn't care cuz I was young
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I didn't read any of this yet but Temple has a campus in Tokyo and it outputs some of the most r-slurred students I've ever met in my life. Just throwing that out there
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North Philly to Tokyo is quite the difference...
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pics or it didnt happen
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muh right side of history!!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Temple/comments/10xhez3/what_a_bunch_of_clowns_listen_to_your_tas_and_ras/
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GOOD post
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Today I will strike and suffer no consequences
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The most stereotypical rightoid subhuman in history
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The union that is linked to my university has been organizing strikes non-stop for 3 years now. I fricking hate it. I'm going into massive debt to pay for a service, yet they take your fricking money and don't even deliver it. And it's a publicly funded institution too! It makes 0 sense to fricking strike against that. Not happy with the new budget? Well tough shit, the guys I voted for didn't win either.
Frick I'm so angry at academia I just can't wait to finish and frick off somewhere else. I literally give no fricks who pays who and how many, just stop taking my money for nothing
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This doesn't stop when u graduate, just goes to different idiots
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You're going into debt to subject yourself to this
FOR THREE YEARS
no wonder they juice young people for tuition you're all too stupid to go somewhere else
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didn't read, saw effort post in the title, upmarseyd
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Snapshots:
see admin e-mail post here.:
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Temple University has also removed pay and tuition benefits from all striking students.:
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they also brought in SCABS (replacement teachers) who are fired racists and male feminists! (according to the union):
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stop shaming students are still attending classes taught by replacement professors:
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I donβt know graduate students get treated like such shit that Iβm glad some of them are actually demanding a little more. The truth is that they probably wonβt get it as long as schools can import unlimited numbers of international students to depress their
wages
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