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...Because of the 2004 ruling, Yale has declined to negotiate contracts with the graduate student union there, Paulson said...
...Graduate students are very well taken care of here,” said Kyle M. Brown, president of the Harvard Graduate Student Council. “We have a lot of ways that graduate students can get in touch with administrators. Having a big, antagonistic union may or may not be in the best interest of grad students...
...think it’s totally inappropriate for TF’s at Harvard (or at any university) to form a union,” Hall wrote in an e-mail. “Of course, graduate students aren’t paid much, but that is because they lead such phenomenally easy lives. Most of them, myself included, have never held a real job, and most if not all of them are working their way towards an even more privileged and easy life as a professor...
...while some are content without a graduate student union, Freeman said unionization at Harvard could gain support, especially with the potential for a decline in Harvard funding for grad students in the wake of the financial crisis...
...Having a union is very important to safeguard the interest of people in these positions,” Paulson said...