Deputy opinion editor Anthony Marek beat me to it, but I’m still going to add my two cents.
The New York Sun reports that American labor unions recently complained about university labor practices to the United Nations.
“NYU has gotten away with hiding behind the Bush labor board decision,” said Susan Valentine, a member of the graduate teaching assistants union at NYU. ” NYU wants to position itself as an international university. They should comport themselves with international labor standards.”
Where have you been these past months, Susan Valentine? I miss you.
I have already written about the GSOC strike extensively for WSN: here, here, here and, most recently, here.
But Ed Lasky at the American Thinker Blog (admittedly not someone I’d typically agree with) summarizes arguments against grad student unionization well:
I worked for as a teaching assistant and research assistant at Harvard, where I ended up with three graduate degrees. I then joined the faculty and held positions in two different branches of the University: Arts & Sciences and the Business School. I employed teaching assistants and research assistants. I know the business from both sides.
The idea of unionizing graduate students is ridiculous. This position has always paid badly, but it provides other benefits. It is an apprenticeship! One learns the craft by practicing it under the supervision of the master.
So does WSN’s good friend, NYU spokesman John Beckman, as quoted in the New York Sun:
“This filing ignores the essential point that underpins the long-held view of the NLRB, reaffirmed in their 2004 decision: Graduate assistants are students, not workers,” Mr. Beckman said. “They are admitted to the university because of their academic talents as students, not hired by the university for their skills as workers.”
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