The unstable environment has added to the “explosive growth” of the higher ed labor movement, said Levin Kim, national chair of the Higher Education Labor United, a coalition of higher ed unions.
“I think that’s all just pointing to the fact that workers are fed up with this moment,” said Kim, 32, who is a grad student at the University of Washington and formerly worked at Harvard Law School. “So many people, regardless of whether they work in research or whether they’re in janitorial services, we’ve been left out of the conversation for so long.”
