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Ramo
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Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:34
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 18-07-2004 04:20
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NLRB: Grad students in private universities lose the right to unionize!
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Remove this text
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/e...on/16union.html
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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.
In a case involving Brown University, the labor board ruled 3 to 2 that graduate teaching and research assistants were essentially students, not workers, and thus should not have the right to unionize to negotiate over wages, benefits and other conditions of employment.
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. |
I hate this government so very much. 
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Ramo
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Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:34
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That's idiotic. If teaching and assisting in research are "studying" instead of "working," then there's no such thing as "working."
Last edited by Ramo on 18-07-2004 at 05:36
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loinburger
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Sweet Sauce Jones
Jul 1999
time: 00:34
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Lab work, to get their PhD. |
The research I did for my assistantship and the research I did for my master's thesis were independent of each other. My advisor was contracted to do some research for an aerospace company, and I was then essentially sub-contracted to do the actual research. But, since I was ostensibly working only 30 hours a week (except for the weeks that I worked 30+ hours, of course) and was a full-time student at the same time, I guess I wasn't doing "real" work. I must have been "studying" for, umm, the classes that I was taking that had nothing whatsoever to do with the research I was doing for my assistantship. **** on a shingle, man, where do you get your information from?
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Originally posted by Ted Striker
An opportunity? |
Does this argument apply to every non-burger-flipping job, or only to graduate research/teaching positions? In other words, should every union (except perhaps the "brotherhood of burger-flippers", though it could be argued that they should be grateful for the opportunity to be employed in the lucrative career of burger-flipping) be illegalized on the grounds that the job being unionized is better than a job flipping burgers?
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