Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote

Re:Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote by parpfish on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:13PM (#36625712)

Grad student unions can stop TAs from being overworked for their classes. But most of the overwork actually stems from trying to start a research career.

there’s nothing a union can do to fix research-based overwork because youre a) doing it to yourself, not because a boss is making you and b) you are competing with researchers from other institutions that aren’t in your union to build your CV.

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Re:Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote by uoaei on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:57AM (#36627340)

"There's nothing a union can do to fix structural inefficiencies" seems like an obvious and irrelevant take. Unions are for securing benefits within the existing system, not for changing the system per se.

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