US

Who We Are

We are the UMass Dartmouth Graduate Student Union (GSU), a group of graduate students working to uplift all grad student voices through organizing.

The main goal of our group is to regain and protect UMassD graduate students' rights to sustainable living conditions amidst rising prices of basic commodities and social services. To get the ball rolling, we need to create a strong graduate community and identify key concerns like low wages, availability of basic services on campus like parking etc., and many others. We can also protect future student workers from the obvious exploitation that we are currently experiencing.

We sincerely hope that all graduate students can participate actively in the GSU!

Solidarity Forever - IWW Song

Lyrics

Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong

When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one
But the union makes us strong

Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong

It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made
But the union makes us strong

Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong

Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the might of atoms, magnified a thousand fold
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong

Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong