In a landmark decision last month, Columbia University graduate students won the right to unionize in a case filed against the National Labor Relations Board. As a result, graduate students in private universities across the U.S. now have the right to collectively bargain. What effect does this have on architecture student labor, and the valuation of architecture overall?
We're joined this week by special guest A.L. Hu, a third-year GSAPP MArch student and key organizer with Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC-UAW). Hu shared what's happening at the school after the landmark decision, and how these organizing efforts can affect the architecture profession overall.
Listen to episode 81 of Archinect Sessions, "GSAPP United":
Shownotes:
"Informality and its Discontents" by Fran Tonkiss
We ran out of time, but both A.L. and the Sessions co-hosts meant to bring up the work The Architecture Lobby is doing in regards to labor and organizing
A.L.'s cat, Cherry ↓
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