Stanford Graduate Students Should Back Unionization Effort

(Originally published by The Mercury News on April 6, 2023)

Campus movement is part of the recent and modest uptick in union organizing efforts

LSE Labour Law in Retrospect: an interview with Professor William B. Gould 1

The unionization of graduate students: Which side are you on, and why?

In recent decades, universities throughout the country have increasingly relied on graduate and sometimes undergraduate student assistants for the purpose of teaching, grading and research. These students perform a variety of functions, many of which were previously done by tenure track academics. It is much cheaper to employ the former rather than the latter group.

For a little more than a century, the public policy of the United States has been the promotion of freedom of association of workers to band together so that they can bargain collectively with their employer.

(Continue reading the opinion essay on The Mercury News’ page here.)