Bush's labor board: No unions for grad students at private Universities

[Eugene Gallagher]

All of the graduate students in the UMASS system are unionized.
Until the union took over negotiations 2 years ago, a M.Sc. student
working 20-30 hours per week could be paid as little as $2500 per
semester, with no health benefits. Our graduate students now make a
minimum of $5500 per semester ($11,000 per year), but still with little
health coverage. A 1-bedroom apartment in the area is about $800 per month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/education/16union.html
Labor Board Says Graduate Students at Private Universities Have No Right
to Unionize
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and KAREN W. ARENSON
Published: July 16, 2004
The fast-growing movement to unionize graduate students at the nation's
private universities suffered a crushing setback yesterday when the
National Labor Relations Board reversed itself and ruled that students
who worked as research and teaching assistants did not have the right to
unionize....The Republican-controlled board reversed a four-year-old
decision involving New York University, a private institution, in which
the board, then controlled by Democrats, concluded that graduate
teaching and research assistants should be able to unionize because
their increased responsibilities had essentially turned them into workers.

[Peter]

"Eugene Gallagher" <Nosp...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:2loumbF...@uni-berlin.de...

Although that is legalized slavery, I have more sympathy for medical interns and
residents, rather for the patients the see towards the end of their 36 hour
shift.

--
Peter

[EW]

Eugene Gallagher wrote:

> All of the graduate students in the UMASS system are
> unionized.
> Until the union took over negotiations 2 years ago, a M.Sc.
> student working 20-30 hours per week could be paid as little as
> $2500 per semester, with no health benefits. Our graduate
> students now make a minimum of $5500 per semester ($11,000 per
> year), but still with little health coverage. A 1-bedroom
> apartment in the area is about $800 per month.
>
>

Man, this modern generation! All they can think about is money.
Intellectual pursuits go by the wayside. When I was president of
the graduate students society, we spent all our time organizing
better parties and trying to get a bar on campus.

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