4/30 I know there are some grad students here. How much do you end up
paying per year in Union dues, if you are on a unionized campus?
Has anyone found a way to get out of paying the dues if they don't
want to be in or support the union? How much to the union people
interfere in your everyday work? Any informaion, prefereably
with links is appreciated. We are trying to stop a union on our campus.
-ecchang
\_Just go up to the Union rep and demand your dues back if
they've been garnished. This Union crap is garbage since
grad students in different majors have nothing in common with
one another. Why would an MBA student want to join a union?
\_ There's dental plans and dental plans. My fiance, a UCB
\_ The union at UC Berkeley is responsible for the grad students
finally getting a dental plan. Does that help?
\_ Are dental plans ever actually worth the hassle of finding a
doctor in the system just for a tiny cut in price?
\_ almost all dentists are in Delta.
\_ There's dental plans and dental plans. My fiancee, a UCB
\_ There's dental plans and dental plans. My fiance, a UCB
grad student, can now afford dental work where before
she couldn't. YMMV.
\_ "Tiny cut" is 50% or more?
\_ In general, liberal arts programs/students are poor and want
unions more than those in the engineering disciplines
\_ To some degree that treatment is deliberate. America already
has plenty of history and sociology PhD's. So we tend to
treat the PhD students pretty poorly ... reduces demand
(and there's still too many of them). Engineering and hard
sciences, on the other hand, can find jobs elsewhere so have
to be treated well, AND we need more of them. At most schools
RA/TA salaries for eng/sci are much higher (and eng/sci grad
students usually have a much lower teaching load over their
unions more than those in the engineering disciplines
graduate careers). |
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