Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 1:47:33 GMT -6
University of Missouri argues against union rights for graduate assistants
The University of Missouri’s first line of defense in a lawsuit over graduate assistants’ efforts to unionize is asserting students have no right to collective bargaining.
But if they do have that right, they are doing it wrong, attorney Michael Kaemmerer wrote in a brief filed last week in Boone County Circuit Court.
Kaemmerer’s filing was the university’s official response to a lawsuit filed May 11 by the Coalition of Graduate Workers asking the court to order UM to recognize that graduate assistants are workers with bargaining rights protected by the Missouri Constitution and to honor a vote held in April selecting the coalition as their union.
In the defenses raised to the lawsuit, Kaemmerer wrote that graduate assistants are students, not employees. If they are employees as defined by the constitution, he wrote, a representation election must be conducted under procedures set by the university.
Read more: www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/turmoil_at_mu/university-of-missouri-argues-against-union-rights-for-graduate-assistants/article_ae04afc1-bd24-5044-8618-9589f64340ad.html
The University of Missouri’s first line of defense in a lawsuit over graduate assistants’ efforts to unionize is asserting students have no right to collective bargaining.
But if they do have that right, they are doing it wrong, attorney Michael Kaemmerer wrote in a brief filed last week in Boone County Circuit Court.
Kaemmerer’s filing was the university’s official response to a lawsuit filed May 11 by the Coalition of Graduate Workers asking the court to order UM to recognize that graduate assistants are workers with bargaining rights protected by the Missouri Constitution and to honor a vote held in April selecting the coalition as their union.
In the defenses raised to the lawsuit, Kaemmerer wrote that graduate assistants are students, not employees. If they are employees as defined by the constitution, he wrote, a representation election must be conducted under procedures set by the university.
Read more: www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/turmoil_at_mu/university-of-missouri-argues-against-union-rights-for-graduate-assistants/article_ae04afc1-bd24-5044-8618-9589f64340ad.html