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Links – 05/01/2017

  • Posted on May 1, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Vanity Fair published a very interesting story about Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, a website on the dark web on which one could buy anything from drugs to a machine gun and even hire a hit man. As…

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CGSU supporters just can’t help embarrassing themselves

  • Posted on April 26, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have written about CGSU before, when I was fighting against unionization, but they are back in the news. A few graduate students have recently published a column against Prof. David Collum in the Cornell Daily Sun, whom they accused…

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Randi Weingarten is upset because she lost

  • Posted on March 31, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

After CGSU lost the election about unionization at Cornell, Randi Weingarten, the president of the AFT and basically a cancer in human form, is whining because she thinks the election wasn’t fair. In her statement, she says that the AFT is…

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Graduate students at Cornell say “thanks but no thanks” to unionization

  • Posted on March 29, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

It seems that graduate students at Cornell rejected unionization. At the moment, 919 students voted against it, while only 856 voted in favor, but 81 ballots remain unresolved. Since that’s enough in theory to flip the election, the Arbitrator refused to call…

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Against unionization for graduate students at Cornell

  • Posted on March 20, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In one week from now, graduate students at Cornell will vote to decide whether they want to be represented by Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU), in which case this group will gain the exclusive right to negotiate the terms and conditions…

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