First Contract Struggles Take Center Stage at Eastern Region Council Meeting

“Not to recommend it, not to suggest it, but to demand change — that right there is the union difference.”

That’s what being in UE means to thousands of Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate workers, said Nishad Gothaskar, a member of the UE Local 256 (MIT GSU) bargaining committee. Flanked by over a dozen fellow members of his local, Gothaskar reviewed Local 256’s bargaining goals for delegates to the UE Eastern Region’s fall council meeting, which was held on Saturday, October 29.