April 28, 2000

Even With Unions, Teaching Assistants Are Between a Rock and a Hard Place

To the Editor:

The conflict over the unionization of teaching assistants is, to a great extent, depicted as between faculty members and graduate students ("For T.A.'s, Winning the Right to Unionize Is Only Half the Battle," March 31). ... This is often not the case. At my institution -- a large, public university in Detroit that is a Carnegie Research University I -- the graduate-employee union shares office space with the professors' union. We are even sister

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