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Joining Together for a Better Northeastern University!
As student employees, we contribute vitally to Northeastern’s mission as a world-class research and teaching university.
Without collective bargaining, we have experienced precarious funding, unstable or onerous teaching loads, inadequate medical coverage for ourselves and our families, job and wage insecurity, a lack of transparency in administrative policies, and the lack of recognition as professionals. With our union, we will negotiate on equal terms with Northeastern, and have a voice in setting our benefits and working conditions. With our union contract, these would be protected, and Northeastern would need our consent to change our terms of employment.
As student employees from across Northeastern, we are forming our union to improve our working conditions so we can focus on our teaching, our research, and our learning. Like tens of thousands of unionized graduate employees at more than 60 universities across the US, we deserve the voice and respect we gain through collective bargaining.Collective bargaining means more rights and more power to shape our lives at Northeastern. Collectively we have more power to negotiate with Northeastern than we have as individuals. No one will pay any dues or fees until student workers have democratically approved a contract with Northeastern.
Without a union:
- Northeastern unilaterally determines our working conditions, and can change them at any time without our consent.
With a union:
- We elect a bargaining committee that gathers input from student workers across campus.
- That bargaining committee negotiates a contract on equal footing with Northeastern administration
- That contract can only be approved democratically, through a student employee vote.
- That contract determines our terms and conditions of employment and is binding and enforceable, usually through appeal to a neutral arbitrator
“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.”
-Albert Einstein, on why he joined the faculty union at Princeton as a charter member
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