Guest Column | Graduate students are workers — let us vote
(06/27/17 1:24am)
As a graduate student worker at the University of Pennsylvania, I research the politics of emotion as a member of the Political Science Department. I am also a worker; I teach classes, grade papers and meet with students — essential tasks crucial to fulfilling Penn’s academic mission. The law agrees: Last August, the National Labor Relations Board classified graduate students as both students and workers, granting us union organizing rights under federal law. Sadly, the Penn administration seems intent on denying us these rights and, with them, the reality of our academic labor.