The Chronicle: Maryland Bills Would Hand Labor Rights to TA’s, Adjuncts
Legislation has worked for graduate students in other public systems
When graduate students who work as teachers and researchers at the University of Maryland at College Park reignited their efforts to gain collective-bargaining rights this past fall, they knew they would be waging an uphill battle.
Maryland’s labor laws don’t grant those rights to graduate students or adjunct professors, even if they do form a union. And university administrators, who could voluntarily recognize a graduate-student union, have made it known that they are not inclined to do so.
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