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Some exciting news for unions in the South: Emory University in Atlanta has just seen its students unionize! As far as I'm aware this would rank among the biggest new union wins in this region; according to EmoryUnite!'s records there were almost 1,700 eligible voters in the election alone.
EmoryUnite! provides the following explanation in why it opted to organize the university earlier this year:
Without a union or a contract, our working conditions are subject to change at a moment’s notice: compensation, required fees, health insurance costs for dependents, teaching and research requirements, discrimination and harassment policies, and grievance procedures continue to change without warning and with little transparency from the administration. Many of us have tried working within the existing channels at Emory, Laney, and within our departments, only to be ignored or met with insufficient responses.
It mirrors many of the grievances at other universities―worries about pay, policies, and benefits―that have driven the wave of student unionization.
In their coming contract negotiations, EmoryUnite! also hopes it will be able to win the following six demands:
- a living wage;
- fair compensat[ion] every time we work as teachers, researchers, mentors, instructors, and tutors;
- safe working environments;
- comprehensive healthcare coverage for ourselves and our dependents;
- access to fair and comprehensive parental accommodations, and;
- the protection of a union in situations involving discrimination, harassment, or any other kind of unfair treatment.