Cornell Graduate Students United demands university bargain with union over pro-Palestine international student’s suspension
by Gabriel Muñoz ~ The Cornell Daily Sun ~ Oct. 3 ~ tinyurl.com/Iguana2094
Approximately 180 Cornell Graduate Students United members and supporters gathered to protest for the University to bargain with CGSU over international graduate student Momodou Taal’s suspension. The graduate student union is demanding the University rescind Taal’s suspension under a Memorandum of Agreement reached in July 2024. The agreement gives CGSU the right to bargain over the effects of academic discipline of graduate students as long as it affects their working conditions. The union suspended Taal for his involvement in a Sept. 18 disruption of a career fair attended by defense contractors L3Harris and Boeing. If Taal is withdrawn from the University, he will be in violation of his F-1 visa status, likely leading to his deportation.
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