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[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, unionize anyway? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[-] 520@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. The union being made illegal means the uni has no obligation to listen

  2. They can be sued for making the union, and the lawsuit will probably be successful.

  3. Any union action will be met with a probably-successful lawsuit.

Best thing they can do is find another job and quit.

[-] drailin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Yep. Current me would have told younger me to get the fuck out and go to a different grad school literally anywhere else. I now tell that to prospective graduate students whenever I meet with them.

[-] drailin@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, but my peers don't despite my attempts to convince them (out of a sense of fear mostly, not aversion to the idea, as is often the case). Many are international students at my school and the state uses that as a cudgel for union breaking, as the law demolishes their immigrant worker/student status that relies on their position if they were to unionize.

Through a tremendous amount of effort, my boss and I have leveraged every ounce of pressure we have on the university administration to give us these necessary improvements to success, with full insurance coverage coming this fall.

Still fucking sucks that we basicallly had to rely on the support of the professors to make this a reality. It would be nice if that solidarity was affirmed by collective bargaining

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