Thousands of graduate students at MIT will have the chance to vote on whether or not to form a labor union Monday and Tuesday.
Organizers say that move could put the outcome of the vote in some doubt. So could the logistics of the vote itself.
"Many people are doing travel as part of their MIT work: going to conferences, doing field research," said Jonathan Zong, an organizer and fourth-year graduate student in computer science."And we only have in-person voting for two days ... during a pandemic." Still, Zong and others say most students still embrace the union in light of shared problems, like limited safeguards against abusive advisors, a lack of dental insurance and the rising costs of living near campus.," Zong says."So that's MIT's own thing, showing that [most] graduate students do not make a living wage in this area."Meanwhile, across a series of
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