Education Issue
Securing union representation presents unique challenges for exploited grad students
Graduate students at Pittsburgh universities are overworked and underpaid – but attempts to unionize have faced serious challenges.
Pat Healy has spent much of graduate school living paycheck to paycheck, sometimes only narrowly making rent. They earn about $10,000 each semester for teaching information science classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and their contract prevents them from taking on a second job...
