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Opinion guest column

We have genuine love, strength in numbers, and unity on our side

By JS Tan, Ki-Jana Carter, and Maddie Dery Mar. 30, 2022

Reaching this point has taken a lot of hard work, and MIT’s administrators haven’t made it easy.

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Unionize for a grievance procedure that puts students first

By Erin Reynolds, Maddie Dery, and Kaylee McCormack Feb. 3, 2022

I enjoyed my first nine months in my lab without incident — I got along with my PI and was nearing completion on a body of work that would result in a first-author publication. But one October evening, things changed. My PI sent an email accusing me of breaking equipment that I hadn’t touched in weeks. When I tried to defend myself, she called me “combative” and called my communication style “unprofessional.” She told me that I was a bad lab citizen, even though as lab safety officer I devoted hours every week to managing lab waste and keeping my labmates safe. My PI made several unreasonable demands in the following weeks, including that we work at least 60 hours per week and respond to Slack messages within one hour during the workday, a rule that completely disregards the fact that students have classes and experiments that prohibit swift responses at all times. When I tried to communicate my concerns, I was again accused of “giving pushback” and being disrespectful.

Opinion guest column

Empowering ourselves to be better researchers through unionization

By Lucy Hu, Madeleine Sutherland, Serita Sulzman, Maddie Dery, Sneha Kabaria, Yadav Gowda, Bridget Begg, Kai Jia, Nishad Gothoskar, and Belinda Li Jan. 12, 2022

Teachers unionize to reduce class sizes so they can focus on providing the best education possible to their students. Nurses unionize to fight understaffing so they can give their patients quality care. We’re unionizing so we can focus on conducting world-class research.

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