Tuesday’s decision by MERC to order an expedited hearing to determine the facts regarding GSRAs’ status as employees made the news around the state, and a national publication profiled the campaign and how a union would affect the lives and work of science grad researchers. Check out the links below for more info, or to comment on them.

Kellie Woodhouse @ AnnArbor.com: with link to GSRA Jeremy Moore’s video profile:“Judge to decide if U-M graduate student researchers can unionize”

Tia Ghose @ The Scientist profiles GSRAs’ fight for an election and what a union would mean for them: “A Graduate Student Union?”

David Jesse @ The Detroit Free Press: “Judge to weigh bid for unionization from University of Michigan graduate student research assistants” 

U of M’s Record Update: “State agency orders hearing on status of GSRAs”

@ AFT National (our parent union): “Research Assistants one step closer to election in Michigan”

 

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