To my fellow Duke PhD students
(02/09/17 5:24am)
The ballots for the graduate unionization election were mailed out Friday, and you will receive them today and tomorrow. For those who don’t know me, I'm located at the Marine Lab in Beaufort along with about two dozen of your other colleagues, and I have been observing things as they have developed in Durham. I know it has been a tense process at times. I've heard from students who found the SEIU workers and student supporters to be pushy or out of touch. Other students felt the emails from Dean McClain were misleading or divisive. Some of you expressed both of those things, and I imagine all of you have considered dental insurance more than you ever expected to.