99.5% Yes: We Ratified Our Tentative Agreement!!
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From the first day of contract negotiations, TRU showed JHU that graduate student workers were not going to accept anything less than a fair contract. Read the highlights of our contract here, including historic wins setting a new standard for grad labor around the country!
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Hopkins Works Because We Do.
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Over 2,000 Hopkins PhD students made history, with a record setting 97% of grads coming to the polls to vote YES to have TRU-UE represent ourselves to collectively bargain for a better Hopkins. Because of this overwhelmingly strong support of each and every grad worker at Hopkins who took to the polls and demanded change, we knew that when we organize together – we win.
Throughout bargaining, we showed up for rallies, testimonial-readings, and a 500-person practice picket line, keeping pressure on the administration and demonstrating that we would not accept a subpar contract. Our Tentative Agreement makes it clear: grad workers delivered major wins for each other!
We are Teachers and Researchers United
We are a movement of graduate student workers at Johns Hopkins University organizing a union in order to win improvements in our working conditions and demand dignity, respect, and a contract. From labs to classrooms, graduate workers at JHU keep the university running. As scholars and as teaching and research assistants, we exercise care and expertise in building the twin pillars of higher education: research and instruction.
We are affiliated with United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE). We share their belief that unions are for everyone, and that a member-led and organized union is the best way to achieve wins for workers.
