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...Kevin C. Wehr, a third-year sociology student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and president of the Teaching Assistant Association, agrees that their union, the AFL-CIO, was a powerful weapon in recent contract negotiations that resulted in tuition wavers for many graduate students...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the nation's TAs organize, Harvard's grad students buck the trend | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Unions are a good thing because they help to define the relations between the administration and its employees," Wehr says. "Unions can act as an incredible participant in politics and can model democratic practices on a large scale...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the nation's TAs organize, Harvard's grad students buck the trend | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Wehr added that he sees the graduate studentlabor movement as feeding into a larger,progressive labor movement...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the nation's TAs organize, Harvard's grad students buck the trend | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...long run, the goals of the progressivemovement should be to reassert itself," Wehr says."On a national level, labor could do a better jobof asserting the interests of its members...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the nation's TAs organize, Harvard's grad students buck the trend | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...night and can work two or three jobs at once. Latitude appears to be as important as season: the incidence and severity of SAD increase with distance ; from the equator, peaking at around 40 degrees north. "It's as if there's a 'biological equator,' " explains Psychiatrist Thomas Wehr, head of NIMH's psychobiology branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Dark Days, Darker Spirits | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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