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Thanks for the Great Postdoc Bargain
- Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman on the contributions of postdocs.
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Unionized Yale graduate students vote to strike
- CNN, Feb 20, 2003. " A group of Yale University graduate students voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to authorize its leaders to call a strike if school officials refuse to recognize their union. "
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Purdue Graduate Student Government
- The Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) is the graduate student organization at Purdue. It is in the process of becoming the official graduate student governing body at Purdue. For further information, please contact Patricia Abad abad@vet.purdue.edu Thank you for your consideration.
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National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
- " A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of graduate and professional student life in the US. To this end, NAGPS works to actively promote the interests and welfare of graduate and professional-degree-seeking students in public and private universities.... NAGPS acts as a clearinghouse for information on graduate and professional student groups at all stages of development. "
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Hell no! We won't grade!
- by Sean McMeekin, Salon Magazine , November 30, 1998. " Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom? "
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Emory University GSC
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The National Postdoctoral Association
- The NPA is an organization of postdoctoral scientists established to provide a voice for postdocs and to tackle the complicated problems facing postdocs.
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NPA - Postdoctoral Association Tool Kit
- Information on how to establish and run a successful postdoctoral association (PDA). This comprehensive guide covers a number of topics including: formation of a PDA, budgeting and obtaining funds, ensuring continuity of leadership, recruitment, the postdoc handbook, time management and networking.
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UC Graduate TA's Go on Strike
- A systemwide strike for University of California schools went into effect December 1, 1998. The Association of Graduate Student Employees provides news of the strike.
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Colorado School of Mines GSA
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Postdoctoral Society
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Medical Students Sue Over Residency System
- New York Times , May 7, 2002. " The suit says the defendants, including seven medical organizations and more than 1,000 private hospitals, have used the program to keep residents' wages low and hours long. Almost all first-year residents make less than $40,000 a year and often work 100-hour weeks.... Defenders of the matching program say that it is a mistake to think about it in purely commercial terms.... 'It's not exactly a job, it's a continuation of a medical education,' said Kevin Jon Williams, a professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who has written extensively on the matching program. " There are some interesting parallels for postdocs.
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University of Florida Student Government
- Student Government at the University of Florida is committed to tirelessly advocating on behalf of the student body, enhancing the entire student experience and promoting the image of the university and its students by upholding ourselves to the highest standards, leading with integrity and selflessly serving the university and beyond.
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University of Arizona GPSC
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Georgia Tech GSG
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Northwestern University Graduate Student Association
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Southern Illinois University Graduate and Professional Student Council
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Conflicting Claims on NYU Strike
- Dec 12, 2005. "New York University told striking graduate assistants that they would lose their stipends for the spring if they did not return to class last Wednesday. With the day of reckoning having passed, some graduate assistants have ended their strike, while others maintain that they will stop at nothing short of union recognition."
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U.C. Berkeley Black Graduate Engineering & Science Students
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The University of Southern Mississippi Graduate Student Association
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U.C. San Diego GSA
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Michigan Technological University GSC
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Eggheads Unite
- By Daniel Duane, New York Times Magazine , May 4, 2003. " Is a teaching assistant an apprentice scholar or an exploited worker? That question is at the center of a heated battle between graduate students and administrators over unionizing. "
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UCLA Society for Postdoctoral Scholars
- UCLA Society for Postdoctoral Scholars
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FELCOM: The NIH Postdoctoral/Clinical Fellows Committee