Beginning in September 2022 and over the course of 12 months, the MIT bargaining team negotiated with the GSU. The teams met more than 20 times to reach a first contract.
MIT’s principles guiding the negotiations included:
- Fulfilling our responsibility to serve the entire community, understanding implications on overall enterprise, including all graduate students and undergraduate students
- Ensuring students have flexibility to make their own choices — avoiding unnecessary mandates, including union membership
- Refraining from bargaining on academic matters
- Protecting the effectiveness of the research and discovery enterprise
- Protecting the unique nature of teacher-learner relationship
- Ensuring the Institute remains competitive and continues to attract top talent
- Ensuring equity with respect to our other employees
- Ensuring fiscal responsibility for this generation at MIT and future generations