Harvard Grad Students Trying To Unionize
A group of Harvard grad students are seeking to unionize.
Aaron T. Bekemeyer and Elaine F. Stranahan, graduate students involved in the unionization effort, said Friday that the movement is still in its early stages, but added that it counts members from all three divisions of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Bekemeyer and Stranahan did not share the number of participants with The Crimson.
The Harvard graduate students join peers at Yale in organizing to unionize. If the movement is successful, it could change the way graduate students interact with the University, according to members who envisioned a more centralized complaint system and suggested that a union could empower graduate students in negotiations with Harvard.
“We are interested in making the University a better place for grad students to do the best research and teaching that they can do,” Bekemeyer said.
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rg9rts April 6th, 2015 at 16:55
I still don’t understand what they are trying to accomplish..
Glen April 6th, 2015 at 22:26
What’s confusing you? Unions provide multiple positive services, including providing a more powerful negotiating platform, a central service run by members for members, and things like that. And grad students provide very important services to universities in both research and teaching contexts – that gives them a negotiating chip. If a single grad student threatens to stop work over what they think is an unfair condition, the university laughs and says “OK, then, go ahead”. If all grad students do it at once, the university takes the threat seriously, and negotiates.
rg9rts April 7th, 2015 at 02:05
Dream on….been there and done that
Warman1138 April 7th, 2015 at 04:56
This will make somebody crazy in righteous right wing paranoia. Be prepared for liberal bashing and the outside chance of it being Obama’s fault.