On Thursday, grads entered the second week of our strike with pickets across central and north campus. Meanwhile, our community continued to have our backs. In an open letter joined by 55 professors and lecturers, UM Law faculty condemned the University’s attempt to use the courts to break our strike. Professor Sanjukta Paul reminded readers that UM’s movement for an injunction is just another chapter in the long and bleak history of union busting labor injunctions. Today, these injunctions are essentially banned at the federal level and strongly disfavored as a matter of public policy in states. That the University has resorted to a tactic with such a reprehensible history shouldn’t surprise us: workers have always faced steep opposition when we demand fair wages and safe and just working conditions. We should learn from this history as well: when workers stick together, our power grows.