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Justice Brandeis

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1. There are many graduate students who would be open to unionization
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 06:02 PM
Jun 3

But only if the emphasis is upon bread and butter issues and collective bargaining over pay and benefits. There is a good case to be made for graduate student TA's and instructors to stand up for their interests against universities that pinch pennies on the back of Ph.D. candidates.

But plenty of graduate students also support Israel's right to defend itself and have little interest in pronouns, land acknowledgements and forcing people to say "pregnant people" and "Latinx".

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