The American Asssociation of University Professors is inviting comment on proposed changes in its recommended college policies calling for graduate-student employees to be given expanded workplace rights. The draft policy changes call for colleges to clearly state employment terms and expectations in hiring graduate students, and give such students a right to a hearing before being dismissed from their jobs. Colleges would be precluded from firing graduate students from their jobs for participating in a strike.
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One Response to AAUP Considers New Protections for Graduate-Student Employees
madamesmartypants - September 16, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I didn’t see anything in this about universities’ needing to pay graduate students at least a minimum wage, nor anything about mandating contracts for employment (unless stating the conditions in writing counts as a “contract”?), nor any specifications regarding caps on maximum working hours (I guess we are leaving this up to the schools’ own judgment…?). And what about health insurance? Maternity and disability leave? While it’s nice not to have to worry about losing one’s job if one goes on strike to protest inhuman working conditions, these changes really only address the least problematic conditions for students, and come about ten years too late. Typical!