More than four years after they unionized and two years since bargaining began, graduate student workers at Columbia University are on the verge of securing their first contract.
The workers, who paused a three-week-old strike earlier this month to enter into mediation, and administrators at the Ivy League institution arrived at a tentative agreement April 19 that would bring increased wages, enhanced workplace rights and protections, improved health benefits and increased child-care subsidies.
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