University of Iowa graduate workers call for fundraising boycott • Io…

University of Iowa graduate worker union members are calling for students, alumni and community members to stop giving the university their dollars as the union that represents them continues its efforts to do away with mandatory fees.

The Campaign to Organize Graduate Students, or COGS, called for a boycott of the UI’s annual 24-hour online fundraising day, called One Day for Iowa. Members said that until the university uses its funding to help make graduate education more affordable and accessible, no one should “give back” like the university is asking them to, according to a transcript of the press conference provided by COGS.

More than 50 UI graduate workers across 18 departments gathered on the university’s Pentacrest to speak out and show their support for the ending of mandatory fees.

“One Day for Iowa asks us to donate money to the Student Emergency Fund, and to the Food Pantry, to, quote, ‘offset the burden of unpaid…