Daily News | Temple grad students overwhelmingly ratify agreement, ending their six-week strike
that quality of instruction has suffered as classes where striking graduate students had been teaching were moved online taught by replacement workers hired by Temple.
Healing relationships between the union and administration — and even among graduate students who went on strike and those who didn’t — may take longer. The university has estimated that 30% of TUGSA members hadUnder the new agreement, the minimum pay for a graduate student will rise to $24,000 in the first year of the contract and to $27,000 by year four, a 30% increase from the current $20,700 average pay over the life of the contract, which runs through spring 2026.
Students will get up to four consecutive calendar days for paid bereavement leave and up to 21 calendar days for the birth of a child.