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...argued that because teaching is an integral part of the graduate student learning experience, teaching assistants should not be allowed to bargain collectively--a stance that some Harvard TFs supported...
...Other TFs, however, said that without the right to organize, they could one day face problems typical of marginalized American workers...
Although critics of the ruling have argued that allowing TFs to unionize would damage their working relationship with their professors, Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, an expert on labor relations, said he did not think that would present a problem...
...contrast to at NYU, where teaching assistants have asked for more pay, housing and increased medical coverage, many TFs at Harvard say they are happy with their terms of employment...
...TFs also said that even if they saw a need to do so, organizing would be difficult because graduate students are kept busy by their studies...