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> MIT recently became one of the first universities to get a grad student union Is this really true for the US? There's a grad student union which represents m
by wasabi991011 5mo ago
> MIT recently became one of the first universities to get a grad student union
Is this really true for the US? There's a grad student union which represents me where I'm at (non-US), was not aware this was so rare.
- krastanov 5mo agoIt is recent and still uncommon that private universities have a grad student union. The US also has many great public universities that have had grad student unions since forever
- ijk 5mo agoYeah, private universities being unionized is more recent.
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- mswphd 5mo agoit was illegal for private schools to have grad student unions until ~2016, as (private) graduate students were not classified as employees. https://www.aaup.org/brief/columbia-university-364-nlrb-no-90-august-23-2016 https://www.aaup.org/brief/columbia-university-364-nlrb-no-9...
- ijk 5mo agoIt's not. In the US, public university graduate student unions started in the 1970s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unionization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio... Which is not to say that conditions in graduate schools (or academia as a whole) are great. But the unionization process is entangled in the legal framework around unions in the United States.
- DaSHacka 5mo agoMy university apparently doesn't have one either, just a "graduate student government"