Labor pains: grad student unions active at many schools. (Update).The decision by resident assistants at University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. to unionize is not an isolated labor issue in higher education. Graduate student labor issues continue to pop up at other campuses. Here's a glimpse of what's happened in recent months: * New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the and the union representing teaching assistants there reached a proposed contract settlement in February, the first ever at a private university. * University of Pennsylvania graduate employees, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. It was formed (1916) out of the belief that the organizing of teachers should follow the model of a labor union, rather than that of a professional association. , filed a petition in December for union election with the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right . An election will likely take place before the end of this school year. * In March, less than a week after staging a walkout, graduate assistants at the University of Michigan settled on a three-year contract with school administrators that includes subsidies for child care. |
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