Collective Bargaining For Grad Students?
Measures before the Hawaii Legislature would create a unit for graduate student assistants employed at the University of Hawaii.
Two state Senate committees are set to  that would establish a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants working at the University of Hawaii.
is authored by Sen. Brian Taniguchi, who chairs the Higher Education and the Arts committee — one of the panels hearing the bill.
As a recent explains, “With the cost of advanced degrees on the rise, master’s and Ph.D. candidates who work for their universities are organizing for better compensation.”
Hawaii, of course, is a state with high union membership.
A Â in grad student organization is making its way through the Hawaii House of Representatives.
It’s authored by Rep. Isaac Choy, the Democrat who chairs House Higher Education — the same committee that will .
