Grad student unions can stop TAs from being overworked for their classes. But most of the overwork actually stems from trying to start a research career. there

Grad student unions can stop TAs from being overworked for their classes. But most of the overwork actually stems from trying to start a research career. there’s nothing a union can do to fix research-based overwork because youre a) doing it to yourself, not because a boss is making you and b) you are competing with researchers from other institutions that aren’t in your union to build your CV.