Graduate Student Voices (GSV) is an effort organized by Iowa State graduate students with the goal of unionizing, a movement aimed at increasing salaries, providing more health care benefits and waiving or lowering student fees, as previously reported by the Daily. GSV made “quite significant progress” toward unionization during the fall 2023 semester, according to.
In the Iowa State Daily on Sep. 14, Dean William Graves of the Graduate College wrote an op-ed in response to recent publications about Graduate Student Voices (GSV) and our efforts to bring a vote to unionize (Biong, 2023a; Biong, 2023b; GSV, 2023). We appreciate Dean Graves’ service to ISU graduate assistants (GAs) and respect.
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate saw a program from Graduate Student Voices (GSV) regarding their efforts to unionize. GSV is a movement of graduate students at Iowa State who support the unionization of graduate students. Sarah Chase, a graduate student in education and a member of GSV, said that if a union does form,.
For the 2022-2023 academic year, the minimum graduate assistantship stipend for a 50% appointment at Iowa State University was $19,100. However, at the University of Iowa (UI), “the minimum salary rate for bargaining unit employees during the term of this Agreement will be $20,708 for a 50% academic year appointment and $25,300 for a fifty.
Graduate Student Voices (GSV) is an effort organized by Iowa State graduate students with the goal of unionizing. GSV is currently collecting signatures from students interested in holding a vote to unionize. “Over the last few years, I’ve kind of started personally interpreting it as the move to really get to a vote on unionization.