Missouri graduate students consider creating union
Source: Kansas City Star-AP
COLUMBIA
University of Missouri graduate student workers have drafted bylaws for a potential union.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the Forum on Graduate Rights expects to hold an election this spring on whether to create the union. Committee members with the forum need a petition with signatures of a majority of graduate student workers to hold the election.
Connor Lewis, a graduate student and co-chairman of the committee leading union efforts said, “We understand that we want to start charting a path forward, and we want to make sure that a union is part of the path forward.”
Anahita Zare, a graduate student and spokeswoman for the Forum on Graduate Rights, said making the draft bylaws available to graduate students early is important to the group’s leadership. Zare said they want to get as much feedback from graduate student workers as possible.
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The University of Missouri’s Forum on Graduate Rights expects to hold an election this spring on whether to create a union. The union would be called the Coalition of Graduate Workers.
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