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Derek Seidman

Buffalo

Contributor at Truthout

Contributor at LittleSis

writer + researcher • labor, corporate power, militarism, climate • contributor: @truthout + @twittlesis • buffalo ny partisan 🦬

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Articles

  • Militant Grad Workers Build Union Power to Fight Attacks on Education and Labor

    2 days ago | znetwork.org | Derek Seidman

    A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT, Duke, Minnesota, and many more.

  • Militant Grad Workers Build Union Power to Fight Attacks on Education and Labor

    4 days ago | truthout.org | Derek Seidman |Merula Furtado

    Part of the Series Challenging the Corporate University A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT, Duke, Minnesota, and many more.

  • Buffalo Is a Union Town - but for Hotel Workers, Union-Busting Runs Rampant

    2 weeks ago | portside.org | Derek Seidman

    Buffalo Is a Union Town — but for Hotel Workers, Union-Busting Runs Rampant Published May 22, 2025 They just look at you like you’re nothing,” said a housekeeper from the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Buffalo, New York.

  • Buffalo Is A Union Town; For Hotel Workers Union-Busting Runs Rampant

    1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Derek Seidman

    Above photo: Hyatt workers announcing their union drive at a press conference outside the Hyatt Regency Buffalo on October 9, 2024. Derek Seidman. Buffalo hotel workers are facing off with a Trump-aligned developer in their battle to unionize. “They just look at you like you’re nothing,” said a housekeeper from the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Buffalo, New York.

  • Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Defends Students Anti-Migrant Crackdown

    1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Derek Seidman

    Above photo: Protesters wave the flag of Mexico during a rally in support of immigrants in response to the Trump administration’s new policies on February 2, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images. Some unions like United Teachers Los Angeles are including immigrants’ rights protections in their bargaining proposals.

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Derek Seidman
Derek Seidman @derekseidman80
28 May 25

RT @JFMFofWNY: “So many things had to work for this family to get this result,” said Jennifer Connor, ED of @JFMFofWNY, one of the groups t…

Derek Seidman
Derek Seidman @derekseidman80
21 May 25

RT @BuffaloDSA: WNY will not abandon its neighbors or the working class to detainment and deportation. In solidarity with these workers and…

Derek Seidman
Derek Seidman @derekseidman80
20 May 25

RT @twittlesis: Do you know where your tax dollars are going? Through investments in Israel Bonds and Israel’s sovereign bonds at the coun…