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Graduates, Adjuncts and Lecturers: Organized Labor the Graduate Employee Union for the University of Maryland affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers |
7100 Baltimore Ave. suite 302 College Park, MD 20740 301.277.9394 fax:301.277.3548 |
to send a letter to your legislators.
Remind them: the university works because we do!
Tuition Remission for Graduate Employees Threatened by State Assembly
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| DO GRADUATE EMPLOYEES NEED A UNION? |
| Absolutely. A union will allow graduate employees to bargain with one voice on matters like wages, workload, childcare, and parking. Without a union, decisions about our living, learning, and working conditions are left to the administration. By improving conditions for all graduate workers, a union strengthens the university's commitment to higher education. Currently graduate employees and faculty are the only state employees who do not enjoy the rights to collectively bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment |
| WHAT IS A GRADUATE EMPLOYEE UNION? |
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A graduate employee union is a coalition of graduate student workers (research assistants, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants) who come together to improve their lives by negotiating with the university as one united voice. Around the country there are over 60 campuses bargaining contracts for graduate student employees, including the universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York's SUNY system. These campuses have seen a great increase in wages and an overall improvement in conditions for graduate employees. |
| HOW DOES IT HAPPEN? |
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A graduate employee union is formed one of two ways:
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