労働社会学研究
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Print ISSN : 1345-7357
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アメリカにおける大学の変化とTAの組織化
TA組織化の背景と経過
大野 威
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ジャーナル オープンアクセス

2008 年 9 巻 p. 1-33

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In 2000, NLRB overturned the previous decision, and declared that TAs at New York University were employees and had the right to organize. This decision accelerated the unionizations of TAs across the country, especially among famous research universities like Yale, Cornel, Pennsylvania, and so on. The purpose of this article is to explain 1) why TAs are trying to organize, 2) how their movements have grown, and 3) what changes they brought about. Since '70s, universities have been restricting the growth of full-time faculties, and increasing reliance on part-time faculties and TAs for undergraduate education. TAs' tasks include grading reports and exams, leading the discussion classes, supervising the laboratory, and so on. In addition, many TAs teach introductory courses by themselves. Nonetheless stipends of TAs are so low that many TA can't make ends meet without taking another job in summer or getting a student loan. They often lack the affordable health insurance. They have no voice in the department. To make matters worse, it is getting more and more difficult to get tenure truck positions. TAs started to organize to improve these situations, and TA unions have proven to be effective for such purposes. TA unions have successfully got stipend rises and affordable health insurances, and established grievance procedures and the policy against discrimination in many universities. However, since NLRB overturned the 2000 decision in 2004, TAs in private universities face difficulties in organizing now.

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