unionization

Graduate students tentatively vote not to unionize: 216-174 vote against union, 174 additional ballots under challenge

A reported 216 graduate students voted against Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representation while 174 students voted in favor of an SEIU union. In addition to those 390 ballots, 174 have been challenged.

Emma Baker | Contributing Reporter

Graduate students begin vote on unionization, face administration opposition

Voting to determine whether graduate students will unionize—an issue complicated by Washington University’s multiple emails to graduate students and faculty that were perceived by some students as discouraging and anti-union—began Oct. 25 and will continue Oct. 26.

| News Editor

Op-ed submission: Propaganda and fear tactics

In true authoritarian fashion, the administration has taken advantage of its ability to communicate directly with the whole University in an attempt to sway students into voting against unionizing.

Jose Madero | Ph.D. Candidate

Op-ed submission: Undergraduates: Stand with your graduate student workers

This administration has displayed a stunning lack of awareness of the graduate student work that goes into planning, preparing and guiding undergraduate education.

The Washington University Graduate Workers Organizing Committee

Graduate students rally, file for election with National Labor Relations Board

Washington University graduate students gathered at a rally outside the Danforth University Center and marched toward Brookings Hall in order to speak with administrators about their plans to unionize through the Service Employees International Union on Thursday, Sept. 14

| News Editor

Graduate students look to unionize

Following Washington University lecturers’ failure to unionize, graduate students are now looking to form a union and will hold a rally in the Danforth University Center Thursday in protest of the University’s anti-unionization position.

Emma Baker | Contributing Reporter

Holding Wash. U. accountable

Curiously enough, our administration can’t seem to keep its rhetoric on international students consistent.

Lucky Santino and Yifan Diao | Ph.D Candidates

Unionization focus shifts from lecturers to graduate students

This past April, Washington University lecturers planned to unionize under the Service Employees International Union Local 1, an organization through which adjunct faculty unionized in April 2016. Although lecturers were gaining momentum in the spring, the vote failed to go through, and the discussion ended with the Service Employees International Union Local 1 this summer.

| News Editor

Lecturers consider union representation, administration pushes back

Lecturers at Washington University are set to vote on union representation by the Service Employees International Union Local 1.

| News Editor

Op-ed submission: This Administration Cannot Be Trusted

Leaders at Washington University have engaged in a campaign of disinformation and intimidation to undermine the unionization process, with Provost Holden Thorp as the face of this duplicitous endeavor.

Student Worker Alliance

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