MU grad students rally on campus Wednesday

Graduate students at the University of Missouri held another event Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of their worker rights rally held in 2015. The gathering was set to begin on campus around noon at the columns.

Last year on Wednesday, August 21, they walked out of class during the first week of school, after officials briefly pulled their health insurance. That decision was reversed within a week the Friday before classes started.

Grad students still continued to push other demands. They report seeing drops in affordable childcare, housing and living wages, while some of their colleagues fell into poverty as university fees continued to rise.

The group later voted to unionize in April, but the UM system refused to recognize those attempts. The issue was then picked up in the courts, where a final decision is still pending.