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NMSU graduate students seek union to improve conditions
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LAS CRUCES – Nearly 60 percent of graduate students at New Mexico State University have signed union cards to file for legal recognition with the NMSU Labor Relations Board.
This is one more step in the process to improve working conditions for graduate students at NMSU, according to James Lewis, a Math Department teaching assistant and graduate student at NMSU who helped organize the union efforts. This started around three years ago, Lewis said. With the new graduate school dean, (we) held monthly meetings with the theme to open a dialogue with the administration. The particular issue at the time was health insurance …. Then eventually, we started talking more about tuition as well, and then summer unemployment.