<story><title>Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid</title><url>https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/02/08/temple-strike-philadelphia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>There are reports from strikers trying to refill medication that the medical benefit suspension has already unilaterally gone into effect.  The university has gone ahead with their threats in that regard (which is especially shitty since it&amp;#x27;s pretty standard in the US to give employees a health insurance grace period on termination).&lt;p&gt;I am really confused about what the university thinks they&amp;#x27;re going to get out of these actions.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation.&lt;p&gt;Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I cannot imagine how the university&amp;#x27;s legal counsel signed off on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>What do you mean? The university is trying to teach a lesson by inflicting pain on those who stood against it. I thought that was clear.&lt;p&gt;Do you maybe mean &amp;quot;what makes them think that this is legal?&amp;quot; I doubt they do. But they likely decided that value of sending a &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t fuck with us&amp;quot; message was higher than the cost of the likely mild consequences.</text></comment>
<story><title>Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid</title><url>https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/02/08/temple-strike-philadelphia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>There are reports from strikers trying to refill medication that the medical benefit suspension has already unilaterally gone into effect.  The university has gone ahead with their threats in that regard (which is especially shitty since it&amp;#x27;s pretty standard in the US to give employees a health insurance grace period on termination).&lt;p&gt;I am really confused about what the university thinks they&amp;#x27;re going to get out of these actions.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation.&lt;p&gt;Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I cannot imagine how the university&amp;#x27;s legal counsel signed off on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrew_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused by that. When my health care ends by termination (of any flavor), I can continue to use that policy number and card for some time. I can then sign up for COBRA and continue my coverage using the same cards. Perhaps there&amp;#x27;s something else at play, but very strange to suddenly not be able to fill prescriptions.</text></comment>