PITT GRADUATE STUDENT UNION

HEARING TRANSCRIPTS

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The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) says our bargaining unit will be composed of Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants. You can read the official decision from the PLRB on the makeup of our union by downloading the PDF below. ​
BargainingUnitCompostionfromPLRB.pdf
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The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board heard testimony from the Graduate Student Organizing Committee and the University of Pittsburgh Administration in October 2018.  The Pitt administrators and their self-described “union avoidance” attorneys tried to argue that graduate student employees (Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Assistants, and Research Assistants) are not employed by the university and all of our work is “academic training.”  Our union argues that even if we do benefit from the experience, it’s still employment, like on the job training or an apprenticeship (one of the oldest and most broadly recognized forms of employment, which helps to shape a career).

In the spirit of transparency, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers union (GSOC-USW) decided to share these transcripts.

The union believes that we, as graduate student employees, should have all of the facts because we are building OUR union.

Below are PDFs of the transcripts from the hearing.  We hope you’ll have the time to read through them.  If you have any questions, contact us at info@pittgradunion.org
hearing_transcript.oct.1.2018.pdf
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hearing_transcript.oct.2.2018.pdf
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hearing_transcript.oct.3.2018.pdf
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hearing.idpage.oct.4.2018.pdf
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hearing.idpage.oct.5.2018.pdf
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hearing_transcript.oct.30.2018.pdf
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hearing_transcript.oct.31.2018.pdf
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hearing_transcript.nov.1.2018.pdf
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objections_hearing_transcript_5-14.pdf
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objections_hearing_transcript_5-15.pdf
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT OUR UNION
  • THE UNION DIFFERENCE AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH UNION BUSTING 101
  • RESOURCES FOR GRADS
    • ​​INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKERS AT PITT
    • COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR NEW AND INTERNATIIONAL GRADS
  • TALK TO AN ORGANIZER
  • ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS OUR UNION
  • HEARING TRANSCRIPTS
  • VIDEO/PHOTO GALLERY