Graduate Students at Harvard Vote to Unionize
“with a vote of 1,931 to 1,523”
It will be fascinating to see how this new power is used.
From Boston.com:
Harvard graduate students vote to unionize
A group of Harvard University graduate students has voted to join the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, an unlikely union for academics.
The Boston Globe reports that 1,931 graduate students, including several hundred undergraduates in teaching positions, voted in a National Labor Relations Board-sanctioned election to join the union.
The election took place on Wednesday and Thursday, with a vote of 1,931 to 1,523 creating a bargaining unit of nearly 5,000 students. The union began successfully organizing graduate students at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1990, and since then has organized many campuses. The UAW now has 45,000 graduate students and 30,000 academic workers in its 400,000 person membership.
The union says students are looking for stability in wages, improved health care, and bargaining power.
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Comments
Maybe the UAW can do for Harvard what they did for Detroit.
Very astute point.
I’m sure it will.
They need to shut up and study.
Yawn.
Maybe these professors should be teaching instead of preaching.,
To Harvard’s credit, they stayed true to their political beliefs and allowed the got and certification to happen. To Harvard’s detriment, they have no clue that this will result in the entire collapse of the economic model of having slave labor do all the professors work in exchange for a parchment degree. Either way, not an endorsement of Harvard as a place to learn.