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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 4575037, member: 7631"] Regarding Sun's post above: The issue of graduate assistants/fellows is much more complicated than athletic scholarships. Research-assistant stipends are often set by the professors the students work for. If your advisor is well-funded, then you're likely to get more support than if the advisor isn't well-funded. So it would be difficult for a union-contract-type agreement setting wages. Teaching-assistant stipends vary all over creation, varying quite a bit across departments even at the same university. I dunno how it might work, but if unionizing graduate assistants would be a single unit across a university, that would seem to me akin to having a bargaining unit consisting of teachers, museum curators, musicians, engineers, and scientists. A history TA is very different from an EE research assistant on many levels, and that would need to be very carefully thought out before organizing. [/QUOTE]