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The Union Fight at Penn

Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania and United RAs at Penn are uniting efforts to push for worker’s rights.Credit: Sydney Curran substantially updated from 2024, by Anonymous, 2025 Join Your Union Now! From the start of the day, when the lights turn on, to the end, when everyone goes home, it is labor that keeps theContinue reading “The Union Fight at Penn”

Penn’s Problematic History of Union-busting

Many University-affiliated staff members have said that Penn has promoted union-busting strategies to their advantage. Photo shows white, male protestor with a sign that demands a fair contract for custodial staff and housekeeping workers. Photo courtesy of The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn has been faced with allegations of union-busting tactics and remained silent in the face of labor organizing in Philadelphia. Corporations and institutions implement common union-busting strategies to keep workers divided, demoralized, and controlled.