UConn Grad Student Employees Will Soon Bargain First UAW Contract
Source: Workers Independent News
By Doug Cunningham
Nearly 2200 graduate student employees at the University of Connecticut will begin bargaining their first union contract soon. Two-thirds of the university teaching assistants signed cards recently to join the Graduate Employee Union/United Auto Workers (GEU-UAW). The teaching assistants reached an agreement with the university to recognize the union based on majority recognition. The university also agreed not to campaign against unionization. Graduate employees at over sixty other universities nationwide have unionized. The UConn grad student employees had the support of Connecticuts entire congressional delegation and 70 state lawmakers. UAW President Bob King commended UConn for respecting the rights of its workers.
Read more: http://laborradio.org/2014/04/uconn-grad-student-employees-will-soon-bargain-first-uaw-contract/
Please note the card check that anti-union people hate worked without any problems. Just google card check and you will see what I mean. I wish Obama had fought for the Employee Free Choice Act. It can be used now ONLY if the employer agrees. The act would have left it up to the employees.
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TBF
(32,090 posts)they (the establishment) is in full battle mode against public schools and it looks like universities are not exempt from that attack. I know there's a lot going on in California as well.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)RandySF
(59,224 posts)GSR's and post-docs at Berkeley have been UAW for a long time now.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)comfortable shoes blah blah blah
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)There will be some flak from RW ideologues in the state political class (that's pretty much ALL of the Tennessee political class BTW) and I'm sure there would be a law suit involved, but it IS still an option for VW.