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Columbia Unbecoming
The Nation, 4/25/05

Grad-student walkout: first step to getting a union?
Christian Science Monitor, 3/29/05

The Superhighway to Bankruptcy, Columbia Spectator, 2/24/05

Last Exit to Columbia, Columbia Spectator, 2/2/05

Graduate Student Workers Vow to Keep Up the Fight, The Brooklyn Rail, 11/2004

A Future for the Union Columbia Spectator, 9/9/04

Graduate Union seeks CU's help with Visa Delays Columbia Spectator, 10/2/03

Graduate Students Rally to "Free the Ballot Box" Columbia Spectator, 4/4/03

 

GSEU Strikes, Classes Temporarily Disrupted Columbia Spectator, 3/11/02

 

Columbia Graduate Assistants Strike to Support Union Effort New York Times, 4/30/02

 

TA's at Columbia U. Stage 1-Day Walkout Chronicle of Higher Ed. 4/30/02

 

One Vote for Unionization Staff Editorial, Columbia Spectator, 3/14/02

 

TAs to Vote on Union Issue This Wednesday Columbia Spectator, 3/11/02

 

University Appeals Labor Relations Board Ruling Columbia Spectator, 3/8/02

 

Union Ruling Questioned New York Times, 3/7/02

 

Union Supporters Will Not Appeal NLRB Ruling Columbia Spectator, 3/6/02

 

Upcoming Vote Mobilizes Union Talks
Columbia Spectator, 2/27/02

 

Preparation Begins for Unionizing Elections Columbia Spectator, 2/25/02

 

Labor Official Rules That TAs at Columbia U. Can Form Union Chronicle of Higher Ed., 2/15/02

 

Columbia Union Vote New York Times, 2/14/02

 

TAs, Graduate Students Entitled to Unionize Columbia Spectator, 2/13/02

 

TA Union Supporters Turn Out for Rally Columbia Spectator, 6/20/01

 

Clinton, Schumer Support TA Union Columbia Spectator, 6/13/01

 

Ruling Favors Graduate Student Union Columbia Spectator, 4/27/01

 

The Wrong Challenge Columbia Spectator, 4/23/01

Negotiate with grad union
by WSN Editorial Board
Washington Square News, 3/24/05

Labor Pains, The New Republic, 1/7/2005

Labor Board's Detractors See a Bias Against Workers, The New York Times, 1/2/2005

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney speaks on immigrant worker rights at Dinkins Forum at SIPA, 11/16/04

AAUP Resolution supports right of grad employees to organize

AFT Calls for Better Standards of Treatment for TAs Nationwide

Bush's Other War, The Village Voice, 10/19/04

U.S. Senate Hearing on Graduate Employee Unionization, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/24/04

 

American Sociological Association, resolution on the right of graduate employees to organize, 2004 Annual Meeting

 

In Harm's Way:Graduate students injured while doing laboratory research often face an uncertain fate, Chemical & Engineering News, August 30, 2004.

 

An Open Letter to Alan Brinkley, by Rick Perlstein

 

Graduate Education Is a Seamless Web of Learning and Work, Not Class Warfare, by Nelson Lichtenstein, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/6/2004

 

Casual Nation (Adobe PDF file), Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions.

Organizing Graduate Students (Adobe PDF file) Prof. Gordon Lafer, Univ. of Oregon

The Case for a Union of Academics, Albert Einstein, essay

Post Doc Crisis (Adobe PDF file), GESO, Yale Univ.

How Wal-Mart Keeps Unions at Bay Business Week, 10/28/02

N.Y.U. and Union Agree on Graduate-Student Pay New York Times, 1/30/02

NYU Agrees to Contract With TAs, Chron. of Higher  Ed., 1/30/02 

Success and New Hurdles for TA Unions Chron.  of Higher Ed., 7/6/01

Unions and Universities New York Times, 11/25/00

Pupil Power The Economist, 11/18/00

9 of 10 Professors Say Unions Don't Strain Advisor-Advisee Ties Chron. of Higher Ed., Nov. 1999

Student Life; Betwixt and Between
The New York Times, 8/11/99

California Grad Students Vote to Unionize Nature, 6/3/99

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