USC's Non-Tenure Track Professors Take First Step to Unionizing
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Congrats to Tufts University Graduate Employees who just won their union! Welcome to Local 509! read more here: www.seiu509.org/2017/05/18/news-tufts-grad-students-make-history-with-vote-to-join-seiu-local-509/
“We’re very much grounded in social justice unionism. What this means is that we’re not just fighting for a union solely through the lens of workplace bargaining,” Sanchez said. “A union movement has to also have values that are grounded in real social justice needs and part of that is addressing the times."
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Graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities have the right to unionize. At USC, students are now taking action.