Andrew Sage

Well, and then they'll always be like, hey, one thing that we know about Jenny Galtz is she likes to lose.

And we're like, thank you.

It's, like, okay, I wouldn't, like, the fucking GSU thing, they had a whole thing, when I was there, like, in, like, 2019, the whole thing was that

And, like, genuinely, this is, like, one of the most admirable things I've ever seen a union do, which was they refused to take their case because the university was refusing to recognize them.

And they refused to take their case to the NLRB because they knew that if they did it, there was a pretty good chance that the old Trump NLRB was going to, like, bust every single graduate school union in the country.

So instead of trying to win for themselves, they fucking didn't do it and just like fought on picket lines instead.

And it fucking rocked.

It was like, they rock.

They're great.

Well, and they are a great, great, great example to us all in terms of how to persist on a fight through attrition.

Because one of the things that you try so hard as a management team to do is just wait until everyone gets tired and leaves.

And it seems like grad students would be the perfect population to just wait out because they rotate out constantly.

Yeah.

But just the way that they have managed to maintain energy through generations and generations of organizers and get it over the line at long last is so encouraging.

There's a thing I remember from... I think the last place I read into it was one of Mike Duncan's things about the French Revolution.

One of the things he talked about was the ways in which part of what caused the French Revolution was that they spent a whole bunch of time teaching all of these kids these incredibly radical Enlightenment ideas, and then they were like, wait, we live in the most absolute monarchy that has ever existed?

What the fuck?

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