Mizzou is Insulting Graduate Workers
The University of Missouri (known as Mizzou) in Columbia has decided to continue resisting the right of its graduate workers to unionize, even after a judge unambiguously affirmed their right to do so.
The Coalition of Graduate Workers (CGW), Mizzou graduate workers’ National Education Association-affiliated union, formed after an April 2016 vote that carried with 84 percent approval. The university immediately refused to recognize the union, and CGW sued for union recognition in May 2016.
In late June, a Boone County judge ruled that Mizzou graduate students are indeed employees, and therefore have the right to unionize.
The spark that ignited the unionization drive came in mid-August 2015. As graduate workers prepared for the start of the semester, the administration sent an e-mail on the day that the previous school year’s health insurance plan was due to run out.
Read more: https://socialistworker.org/2018/07/11/mizzou-is-insulting-graduate-workers