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 Should #GraduateStudents & #Adjuncts #Unionize for #BetterPay?  @NYT’s Room for Debate asks—#adjunct advocates & admin square off

UW Madison was the first  to recognize a graduate-student instructors union. AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Colleges have been cutting costs by using more nontenured instructors, including graduate student teaching assistants and adjuncts, instead of professors. They account for over half of teachers on college campuses. Both adjuncts and graduate instructors have been organizing for higher pay and employment benefits.

But is unionization the answer?

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