https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/labor-employment-roundup-ii-3/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/10/labor-employment-roundup-ii-3/comment-page-1/#comment-177238 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:30:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33032#comment-177238 I was a unionized graduate student in NY (Communications Workers of America). I learned that I was in a union after my advisor went to increase my abysmal “union-negotiated” stipend out of his own pocket and discovered that it wasn’t possible under the union contract. I tried to get out but they demanded a lump sum buyout that I couldn’t afford. So they parasitized 1% of my salary until I graduated, which is what unionization of graduate students is intended to do.

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