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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. This is my interview with Ian Gavigan, the executive director of

Higher Education Labor United, or HILU.

Over recent years, unions at Rutgers University came together to fight,

demonstrating the power that campus workers can wield when everyone from custodians and dining hall staff to grad students and professors unite.

In 2023, that campus-wide work led to full and part-time professors,

researchers, postdocs, medical faculty, and grad students coming together to wage a successful

strike. Rutgers wasn't alone. Campus workers all over the country, from the University of

California to Boston University,

have come to understand that a workforce fragmented across so many bargaining units

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