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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

University Business

Grad student labor organizing has spiked in recent years , according to William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Herbert cites the cost of graduate student labor to be a leading catalyst to this trend. 31 and Feb.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote.

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