Graduates, Adjuncts and Lecturers: Organized Labor the Graduate Employee Union for the University of Maryland affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers 7100 Baltimore Ave. suite 302 College Park, MD 20740 301.277.9394 fax:301.277.3548

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GALOL and Graduate Employee Unionization in the News Diamondback editorials in support of grad unionization: Subsistence or survival? Grad students have every right to be mad students letter from GALOL co-chair Suzanne Sindi NEW! 2/26/03: a Diamondback article on the protests of Feb 24th. And with the article about the victory our brothers and sisters in the staff union won, there's a picture of Ed Martini working the bullhorn. 11/15/02: a Diamondback article on how the outcome of the November elections will affect GALOL. 4/23/02: a Diamondback article on GALOL...and also in today's paper, read the diverse responses to the Diamondback's anti-union editorial. 3/13/02: In the Diamondback, Graduate students pushing to join wave of unionization at universities. Study Shows Colleges' Dependence on Their Part-Time Instructors, from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Check out John Summers' article, "Graduate Economics," in the Sunday, April 9, 2000 Washington Post AAUP Supports Right of Graduate Students to Collectively Bargain: read the statement, then browse their site for more info about AAUP's stand on graduate and adjunct labor issues. WORKPLACE, an electronic journal addressing the political, historical, and aesthetic conditions of academic labor, published by the graduate student caucus, an allied organization of the MLA. Report on Professional Employment, Modern Language Association Two articles from the American Historical Association's Perspectives on Graduate Student Labor: Grad Student Radicalism From Sociality to Responsibility ...and listen to GALOL founder Kathy McDonald discuss graduate student unionization on the September 13, 2000 edition of Public Interest.