Effects of Unionization on Graduate Student Employees: Faculty-Student Relations, Academic Freedom, and Pay

In cases involving unionization of graduate student research and teaching assistants at private U.S. universities, the National Labor Relations Board has, at times, denied collective bargaining rights on the presumption that unionization would harm faculty-student relations and academic freedom. Using survey data collected from PhD students in five academic disciplines across eight public U.S. universities, the authors compare represented and non-represented graduate student employees in terms of faculty-student relations, academic freedom, and pay. Unionization does not have the presumed negative effect on student outcomes, and in some cases has a positive effect. Union-represented graduate student employees report higher levels of personal and professional support, unionized graduate student employees fare better on pay, and unionized and nonunionized students report similar perceptions of academic freedom. These findings suggest that potential harm to faculty-student relationships and academic freedom should not continue to serve as bases for the denial of collective bargaining rights to graduate student employees.

Conclusions and recommendations; report to Harold E. Stassen, Director of Foreign Operations, regarding the United States participation in technical cooperation programs for underdeveloped countries.

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Nominations of D. James Baker, Douglas K. Hall, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Arati Prabhakar, and Clarence L. Irving : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, May 24, 1993.

Shipping list no.: 95-0007-P.

Nomination of Arnold G. Holz to be chief financial officer of NASA : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Tranpsortation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, April 13, 1994.

Shipping list no.: 94-0395-P.

A nation at risk : the imperative for educational reform : a report to the Nation and the Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education /

Item 455-B-2

Reading framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1992-1998 : NAEP reading consensus project /

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Nominations of Graff, Tunheim, Nelson, Joyce, and Hall : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session ... February 1, 1994.

"Nominations of Henry Franklin Graff, John R. Tunheim, Anna Kasten Nelson, William L. Joyce, and Kermit L. Hall, to be members of the Assassination Records Review Board"

Adequacy of NOAA's nautical charting program : hearing before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and Environmental Affairs of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, December 18, 1992, New London, CT.

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Statistics for the United States, 1867-1909.

Issued also, 1911, in Publications of National Monetary Commission. Vol.XXI [no. 1]

National resources development report for 1942. January, 1942.

Issued also as House doc. 560, 77th Cong., 2d sess., with title: Message from the President of the United States transmitting National resources development report for 1942.

Nominations before the Senate Armed Services Committee, second session, 106th Congress : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on nominations of Rudy de Leon; Douglas A. Dworkin; Bernard D. Rostker; Gregory R. Dahlberg; Madelyn R. Creedon; Adm. Vernon E. Clark; Gen. John A. Gordon; Lt. Gen. Tommy R. Franks; Lt. Gen. William F. Kernan; Donald Mancuso; Roger W. Kallock; James E. Baker; Lt. Gen. Peter Pace; Lt. Gen. Charles R. Holland; Maj. Gen. Robert B. Flowers; and Robert B. Pirie, Jr., February 8; March 21; April 11; May 16, 24; June 27; July 26; September 6; October 3, 19, 2000.

Shipping list no.: 2001-0213-P.

Topex/Poseidon, a United States/France mission : oceanography from space : the oceans and climate.

"Mission to Planet Earth."

Toward effective performance management in the federal government : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

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Reduction in force : the evolving ground rules : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

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