alt Hacker News> MIT recently became one of the first universities to get a grad student union
Is this really true for the US? There's a grad student union which represents me where I'm at (non-US), was not aware this was so rare.
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krastanov • today at 4:38 PM
It is recent and still uncommon that private universities have a grad student union. The US also has many great public universities that have had grad student unions since forever
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DaSHacka • today at 4:41 PM
My university apparently doesn't have one either, just a "graduate student government"
It's not. In the US, public university graduate student unions started in the 1970s.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio...
Which is not to say that conditions in graduate schools (or academia as a whole) are great. But the unionization process is entangled in the legal framework around unions in the United States.