Workers articles
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VDOT holds vigil for workers killed by drivers at Workers Memorial on I-64
The vigil took place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 at the department's Workers Memorial, located on Afton Mountain on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. The event was part of Work Zone Awareness Week, which has taken place every year since 1997.
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Graduate workers deserve better
In the United States and at the University of Iowa, it is unacceptable that trying to further their education often leads to graduate students financial turmoil. Recently, the UI’s graduate student union Campaign to Organize Graduate Students, or COGS, held a protest on the Pentacrest to continue their push to end graduate student fees. In
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Graduate student workers ask ‘Who is the university for?’
The University of Iowa pays poverty-level wages to graduate workers despite incredible fundraising and an endowment of over $3 billion. The Board of Regents has increased tuition yet again and is desperately seeking funds from new private partnerships in order to “maintain academic excellence”. How can one school be so wealthy and yet so anxious