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Unionized graduate students at Dartmouth College went on strike earlier this week on International Workers’ Day demanding university administration to pay students living wages. Dartmouth graduate students are represented by the Graduate Organized Laborers at Dartmouth, and negotiations between the union and university administration began in August and have been ongoing. Graduate students state that negotiations have stalled after the university rejected demands for higher wages and greater employee benefits. Graduate workers are seeking better pay, dental coverage, affordable childcare, retirement benefits, and short-term disability leave. Dartmouth administration has countered that the union is not responding to its proposals, and the most recent proposed contract would raise wages by around seven thousand in the first year, and would also pay a greater portion of healthcare premiums.