The University of Oregon Student Workers union interim president is currently looking for a new position at the university. Mae Bracelin says, “That does make me the third out of four campus labor union presidents to get my job cut, which is strange and suspicious.”

Last spring term, the UOSW was the first campus-wide undergraduate student union in the country to win a collective bargaining agreement, in which students gained the right to arbitrate and grieve instances of harassment and discrimination, as well as modest pay increases.

Despite these wins, three weeks before the start of the fall term, many student workers received notices of job cuts or the university deciding not to reappoint them, encouraging students who are eligible for work study to apply. The job cuts came shortly a

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