We Won Our Union with 90% Voting YES!

We Are Graduate Workers of Saint Louis University Union, GWSLUUnion-UAW

Through our union, Saint Louis University graduate workers are improving the graduate worker experience at SLU and increasing our voice locally and nationally.

Graduate workers make essential contributions to the teaching and research missions at SLU, but many of us still struggle to pay high housing and other costs in Saint Louis, lack secure rights in the workplace, and face increasing uncertainty about our futures given the precarious nature of our current working conditions, unstable funding, and unstable regulation of visas and work authorization in recent years.

We join a growing national movement of academic workers forming unions with the UAW to improve our lives and our work. UAW student workers across the country have made a difference advocating for science research funding, fair visa and immigration policies, and better working conditions in all academic institutions.

We have already seen the power of organized graduate workers at universities to dramatically improve their working conditions through unionization with United Auto Workers, including Harvard, UConn, The New School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and more. By building on their experience we can  raise standards for graduate student working conditions at SLU.

Hear from some colleagues about why they support the union for graduate workers at SLU.