A majority of grad workers say YES to the MIT GSU for meaningful change

Just five weeks after announcing our campaign, a majority of graduate student-workers have joined their colleagues in saying “yes” to a union. More than 2,500 grad workers are standing together to demand better funding and compensation, protections from advisor abuse, affordable housing, medical and dental benefits, and much more.

We are stronger together! Join us by signing your union card today!

Our colleagues in the GSC, BGSA, and RISE have written a powerful op-ed on the limits of existing advocacy channels and the need for grad workers to form our union to win meaningful change. Grad workers from the Graduate Student Council (GSC), the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA), the Reject Injustice through Student Empowerment (RISE) campaign, and in departmental student advocacy have firsthand experience of how student voices are consistently ignored in the effort to create a healthier and more just MIT. Now, they are calling for a new approach that puts the power in our hands. 

This month, the BGSA formally endorsed the MIT GSU, in solidarity with our shared goals of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion at MIT. The MIT GSU-UE will advance social justice on our campus and build on UE’s long and rich history of fighting racism, gender-based discrimination, and homophobia on the job.

International student-workers are a vital part of our community, yet face many hardships due to MIT’s discriminatory policies. International students enjoy the same legal rights as domestic students to unionize; international graduate workers are members, organizers, and leaders in our union fighting to secure fair and equal treatment. 

With our union, we will win a MIT where grad workers have a powerful, democratic voice in our working conditions and are finally empowered to perform world-class research free from harassment, discrimination, and abuse.

Stand with thousands of your coworkers by signing your union card!