Graduate Student Workers Are Essential to the State’s Universities. They Deserve a Contract Now.

Graduate student workers are essential to the state’s universities. They deserve a contract now.

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Em Sowles is a fifth-year PhD student and graduate research assistant in the Physics Department at the University of Maine, and a member of the University of Maine Graduate Workers Union (UMGWU-UAW), which represents 1,000 workers across the University of Maine System. G…

Dartmouth, student worker union struggle to resolve contract

HANOVER — After eight hours of mediation, the union representing undergraduate student workers on campus claims Dartmouth College is not negotiating in “good faith” on a new contract.