Union organizers share experiences with MU students

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/union-organizers-share-experiences-with-mu-students/article_6e945379-0e56-5302-a8da-5ac598ac0745.html

By MEGAN FAVIGNANO
Friday, November 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm Comments (1)

Unions helped graduate students get and keep better benefits at their schools, representatives of graduate student unions from Florida State University and Illinois State University on Thursday told University of Missouri students contemplating a union here.

Eric Scott, a member of the Coalition of Graduate Workers — the group pursuing a union on the MU campus — said the input was vital for MU graduate students to hear as they consider a union.

The Coalition of Graduate Workers “can’t say definitively ‘this is what it’s like to work under a unionized campus,’ and our guests were able to give us that perspective,” Scott said of the meeting at Tate Hall. “It makes me feel good about what we’re working for. If we can get the kind of results that they’ve had, then I’m going to be really proud of what we’re doing.”

Martin Bremer, a doctoral student at Florida State University and executive vice president of the student union there, said stipends for graduate assistants have increased during his four years there. Graduate assistants receive a stipend and typically a tuition waiver in exchange for their work teaching and conducting research at their university.

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News release with demands from Forum on Graduate Rights

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1. Solidarity with the students at Mizzou -

they are working very hard.