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Article: Graduate students explore unionizing.(Business)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2000
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University graduate students in metropolitan Washington are in the first stages of organizing unions to protect them from the traditional long hours and low wages of moonlighting as teachers.
Graduate-student unions are part of a trend sweeping the nation, which could make the cost of college education more expensive. This month, state officials in Pennsylvania and Illinois fueled the trend by handing legal victories to union organizers.
The Pennsylvania state labor board ruled last week that Temple University graduate students could organize. The ruling makes Pennsylvania the 11th state to recognize the student unions. In Illinois, the state ...