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Re:MIT graduate students vote to unionize by jkaplowitz on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:35PM (#30969497)
> What do you mean? Just get 30% of your members to sign a petition and you can hold an election to change unions. That is literally what organizing is.

> If you can get 30% of your members to go on a "wildcat strike" against UC Santa Cruz & UAW, then you can get 30% to sign a union replacement card.

Are you speaking based on California public sector union law or the federal National Labor Relations Act? The federal NLRA doesn't apply to state public sector workplaces, including UC Santa Cruz, with that being handled by state law.

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Re:MIT graduate students vote to unionize by whimsicalism on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:38PM (#30969521)
My only experience with unionization is at private universities in Massachusetts, so I guess I am unfamiliar with how state law plays in for these public sector unions in California.
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