For an Organization of Intellectual Workers
By Albert Einstein.

Study casts doubt on union skeptics

Grad Teacher Unions
Links to TA union websites

Fun Links
How to have fun in New Haven and on the web

Alliances
Coalitions and Links across the country

GESO's NLRB Page

Unionization of Grad Student Employees.
AAUP statement
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Workplace
Journal for Academic Labor

Casual in Blue
Study of Teaching at Yale

The Big Picture
Articles and Arguments


The Big Picture
Articles and Arguments

New: Nat'l Academic Professional Associations Support Grad Unions!

  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
  • ASA (American Studies Association)
  • AAUP Statement (American Association of University Professors)

New: What's happening at NYU and their NLRB hearings?

New: National Grad Student Employee Bill of Rights

Casual in Blue: Yale and the Academic Labor Market
Read the study of teaching at Yale that sparked nationwide attention in the New York Times and elsewhere.

Workplace The Journal for Academic Labor. The most recent edition: Nov 1999. Focus on concerns relevant to the MLA and the fields of literature/language/composition.

PhDs.Org -- Central Source for Science and Engineering PhD Students
See especially the focus on Grad Student and Postdoc Organizing

The Postdocs Plight

Science: Next Wave

For an Organization of Intellectual Workers
By Albert Einstein.

The Right of Graduate Student Employees to Unionize.
Official statement by American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

Why a Graduate Student Union?
By Yale Professor Michael Denning: "To understand what is at stake with GESO, we need to ask: why are there graduate students? and why do graduate students have the right to organize themselves into a union?"

Why Professors Should Support Graduate Student Unions.
Editorial in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Why Unionize?
Column in Religious Studies News, the national newsletter of the AAR (American Academy of Religion).
By former GESO Chair Antony Dugdale

Academe. The Journal of the AAUP.

NLRB vs. Yale
Find out about the NLRB's 1997 charge that the university administration committed unfair labor practices, and the General Counsel's determination that Teaching Assistants are "employees" covered by labor law.

Statement on Growing Use of Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty
Endorsed by the AHA (History), the AMS (Math), the APA (Philosophy), the APSA (PoliSci), the ASA (Sociology), the MLA (Languages), the NCTE (English), the OAH (History) and the AAUP (Faculty union).

Staffing the Crisis An article from the trenches of the U Illinois TA union.

Going Adjunct . Article in Salon about the next group of folks to "go postal".

Nice Work If We Can Keep It: Confessions of a Junior Professor By Kathy Newman

Organizing: People, Power and Change A Course Syllabus.
By Marshall Ganz, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

That Labor-Intellectual Alliance From Union Democracy Review.

Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers

Academic Horror Show!!

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