Cambridge, Mass.
“Your objection to paying dues or fees is based on your political views and not your religious belief.” That is what my union told me when I objected to paying dues to a union that seeks the destruction of Israel.
I came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021 to get a doctorate in computer science. I consider myself a student, but the National Labor Relations Board in 2016 brushed aside decades of precedent and ruled that graduate students are employees subject to unionization. A plurality of MIT graduate students (46.7%) voted to install the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, known as UE, as our exclusive bargaining agent, and the university capitulated to its demand for a contract with mandatory dues.
UE endorses the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and “urges the union at all levels to become engaged in BDS.” Minutes of a meeting in 2020 of the MIT Graduate Student Union confirm that the UE local is engaged in BDS. The GSU website uses Squarespace , according to a member of the union organizing committee, because “Wix is an Israli-owned [sic] company, which conflicts with BDS.”
Since Oct. 7, Jewish students at MIT have been terrorized by anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate on campus. When the university warned unruly protesters who were occupying a building that they risked suspension, the GSU backed the protesters and condemned “MIT’s threats against students exercising their basic First Amendment rights.”
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Author: Ruth King
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