I’m thrilled about this. Absolutely infuriating that grad students were selling their plasma in order to make ends meet! It’s clear what to do in these situations: Form for a union. Stick with it. Persevere. Congratulations, guys!
Grad Employees' Org UMich
 @geo3550
25 Aug 2023
BREAKING: Grad workers vote to ratify U-M offer, ending longest strike in GEO history This guarantees a 20-80% raise for incoming grad workers and a living wage for most PhDs, with wins across a host of issues, from trans & parental care to abolition and harassment protections.

Aug 25, 2023 · 2:33 PM UTC

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Your solution is just to give everyone free money. That hasn't panned out very well for us now has it?
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Pretty much everyone I know under 30 sells plasma to make ends meet. Jobs don’t pay enough to live off of.
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I did that when I was in college. You have needles in both of your arms.
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IF you "clowns" want free college, start by demanding profs & grad asst's take a $1/yr salary!!!
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Plasma companies make over $1,000 for a single bottle of plasma but only pay $60
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Trans care covered. Won in a strike. That's *so* awesome.
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It's the DEMOCRAT party..... the one YOU'RE running for that is destroying this great country. You're a joke.
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College kids were donating their plasma back when I attended university in early 90s. I suspect in thirty years from now college kids will still be donating their plasma. It's just what many college kids do. Some do it to buy books, clothes.. others do it for beer money #whatever
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When gas or prescription prices increase, Dems always tell me gas station owners & drug companies are being "greedy" Aren't the colleges & universities who accepted all that predatory money loaned to students greedy?
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