Letter concerning graduate scholar unionization election | MIT Information

The next letter was despatched to MIT graduate college students, and subsequently shared with the broader MIT group, immediately by Chancellor Melissa Nobles and Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Schooling Ian A. Waitz.

To MIT graduate college students,

The Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has counted the ballots from the graduate scholar unionization election held on our campus earlier this week — an election by which 75 % of the three,823 eligible graduate college students solid ballots. 

Of the counted ballots, 1,785 college students (66 %) voted in favor of illustration by the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Employees of America (UE), whereas 912 college students (34 %) voted towards the union.

We’re grateful to the various members of our group, on all sides of the controversy, who’ve engaged constructively and respectfully on this dialog. All through this course of, we now have been heartened by our group’s clear dedication to the well-being and success of our college students. 

Certainly, as we wrote to you throughout this marketing campaign: We agree that there are areas the place MIT can enhance, and we share lots of the similar targets because the MIT Graduate Pupil Union. With the election final result now clear, we’ll proceed to work alongside you to enhance MIT for all of our college students. And we congratulate the present and previous members of the MIT GSU on their 4 years of devoted work that culminated on this election.

In gentle of the result of this vote, within the coming months, MIT’s representatives anticipate to fulfill with MIT GSU and UE leaders to start good-faith negotiations over the phrases and situations of employment for the members of this bargaining unit.

After all, the Institute should serve all of its college students, in each college and educational program. MIT has 12,000 college students, and the union will symbolize lower than one-third of them. We’ll proceed to uphold our duty to each scholar, each those that are represented by the union and people who should not.

College students are on the coronary heart of MIT, and all of us who lead the Institute are devoted to making sure that each scholar advantages from each alternative that our campus has to supply. We look ahead to persevering with that work along with you. 

Sincerely,

Melissa Nobles
Chancellor

Ian A. Waitz
Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Schooling