[PhDs] Unions

[Vidya Rangasayee (வித்யா ரங்கசாயீ)]

That’s an interesting thought. Have never heard of it. What are the
benefits of doing so. I was with faculty union over at SJSU but never
really understood its workings

Thanks
Vidya

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:39 PM Jack Atherton <lja at ccrma.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Hi PhDs,
>
> I would send this to the grads listserve but I don’t know for sure which
> faculty / staff have access to it. If someone knows better, feel free to
> loop it in.
>
> Has anyone heard mutterings of the grad student TA/RAs finally unionizing?
> This might be a good moment in time to put pressure on the university while
> they are in a hard place and when they might make some decisions which are
> upsetting to many of the grad students. I know that at UC Berkeley it is
> mandatory to be a member of the union, even if you are an undergraduate
> just doing grading for a class (I was in that situation once). Maybe their
> precedent or some other could be used as a model.
>
> Let me know if you have any thoughts,
> Jack
> _______________________________________________
> phds mailing list
> phds at ccrma.stanford.edu
> https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/phds
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/phds/attachments/20200326/4b7d8870/attachment.html>