Graduate Worker's Rights and Collective Bargaining
In December 2022, the 2022-2023 Graduate Student Government unanimously passed a legislative bill that advocates for allowance of graduate student workers across the University system of Maryland to access Collective Bargaining rights, which would allow for the ability to form a union and access a democratic right that has been a federal mandate since 1935.
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Read the legislation here:
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What is collective bargaining and why is it important?
In the state of Maryland, graduate research and teaching assistants are legally prohibited from “collective bargaining” or forming any kind of employee union. Collective bargaining is the voluntary process through which employees discuss the terms and conditions of their work, either with employers directly, as represented through an organization of like-employed workers (aka a union), or through employee delegates. To date, graduate students in Maryland legally cannot unionize.
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