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...Kimberly Johnson, an organizer with the United Auto Workers (UAW) who has been coordinating graduate students’ efforts at Harvard, says financial concerns are just one of many reasons why graduate students might choose to unionize...
Johnson says organizers at Harvard hope to obtain initial signatures from at least 50 percent of eligible graduate students —instead of the required 30 percent—and that she did not know when the UAW might file for recognition on behalf of the teaching fellows...
...offer an ambitious range of subsidized services that include 24-hr. on-site child care, summer camp and tutoring for middle schoolers, recreation and SAT prep for teens as well as financial planning for retirees and assistance to shut-in seniors. Beginning this fall and working closely with the UAW, Ford will roll out the red carpet for employees at 31 family service and learning centers over the next two years...
...Even worse, some in the labor crowd have actually come up with an alternative: Ralph Nader. In somewhat shocking statement Tuesday, UAW president Stephen Yokich said Gore was "holding hands with the profiteers of the world" and said Nader "will take a stand based on what is right." And Nader, longtime corporate gadfly and hard-core environmentalist extraordinaire, is running well enough in all the right places to give Gore the same case of the Perots that George Bush caught in 1992. Nader is running 4 to 5 percent nationally and 9 to 10 percent in California, an absolute must...
Unionization of graduate students is already legal at public universities, but state taxpayers--and not students--bear the costs of wages and benefits. According to the UAW, about 20 percent of teaching assistants, all at public universities, are currently unionized nationwide...