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drxdrg08 t1_j7x9ttr wrote

Reply to comment by Luke_Orlando in Temple University deactivated health insurance of all striking graduate workers today by TransFattyAcid

There is no source you can provide because you can't "deactivate" health insurance.

The students that are striking are no longer employees, since they are not coming to work anymore. They have been notified twice in writing that not coming into work means they will be fired. Now they have been fired.

Were their paychecks also "deactivated"? They can continue under COBRA, that's the law, just like every other terminated employee.

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Luke_Orlando t1_j7xav45 wrote

One absolutely can deactivate health insurance. That exact issue was the subject of a teacher strike I participated in four years ago.

Depending on the type of strike this is, they may be protected under the labor board's laws regarding strikes on unfair conditions:

"Such strikers can be neither discharged nor permanently replaced. When the strike ends, unfair labor practice strikers, absent serious misconduct on their part, are entitled to have their jobs back even if employees hired to do their work have to be discharged."

If this is the case, what Temple did is illegal.

There are many other conditions in which the workers are protected, this is just one way in which temple may have violated labor law in the blundering way they've handled this situation.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7xezs8 wrote

>what Temple did is illegal.

The correct response. Temple should hire new counsel, too, imho.

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drxdrg08 t1_j7xeqae wrote

> If this is the case, what Temple did is illegal.

You are right. Temple doesn't have an HR department or the legal department that would have cleared this. Now they are in deep trouble!

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thesonofdarwin t1_j7xlohi wrote

You're right, large organizations never do illegal things or receive fines and judgments against them as a result. They have an HR and legal department! Petition the courts to just dismiss all workers claims against their employers if they have HR.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7xetzn wrote

>The students that are striking are no longer employees

Not how labor law works.

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