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nabla9 on April 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT graduate students vote to unionize

A student's union is not the same as a labor union. The student's union represents students.

This is a labor union representing graduate student-workers who are employed by MIT.

some-human on April 9, 2022 [–]

Again, The staff of the university (academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, etc) tend to belong to The University and College Union.[2]

If they are employed by the university in the UK, they typically belong to this union.

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