In their ongoing dispute with administrators over pay and the frequency of contract renegotiations, graduate students at Oregon State University concluded their second week of striking on Friday.
On November 12, the Coalition of Graduate Employees, which represents over 1,700 graduate student teaching and research assistants at the biggest university in the state, went on strike in an attempt to get the lowest-paid graduate student employees to receive a 40% pay increase.
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