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Grad students voted at my school to unionize. I wasn’t In the thick of it (not grad student) but the anti union messaging was subtle and more effective then I
by acomjean 6y ago
Grad students voted at my school to unionize. I wasn’t In the thick of it (not grad student) but the anti union messaging was subtle and more effective then I thought it would be. They still voted to unionize but it wasn’t a slam dunk.
All staff here benefit because we get some of the union benefits even though we’re not union eligible.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoWhat was the anti union messaging in question, I’m curious?
- acomjean 6y agoI was subtle questions on posters put up, about controlling your own destiny, not paying "dues to Harvard/ autoworkers union". They were kinda amorphous. I forget the exact wording but it played up graduate students tendency to be competitive. One anti group was name "liberals against Unionization of Graduate Level Students". edit: They left the anti-union web page up: https://criticalgsu.wordpress.com/six-arguments/ https://criticalgsu.wordpress.com/six-arguments/ https://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails.thecrimson.com/photos/2016/11/15/201326_1318810.jpg.2000x1333_q95_crop-smart_upscale.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails.thecrimson.com/photos/20... You can see a couple of the unit-untion posters in the slide show. There were lots of others.https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2018/04/union-election https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2018/04/union-election
- bumby 6y agoDo you have to pay agency fees ? (lower dues for non-union members who benefit from the Union policies)
- acomjean 6y agoNo. Some of the unions negotiated some inexpensive tuitions and the university gave that to everyone (so I was told)..