Ben Zalisko (Postdoctoral Scholar in Biochemistry) and UnJin Lee (third-year Ph.D. in the Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology) debate graduate student unionization at the University of Chicago.

Discussing specifically from the vantage point of students in the graduate sciences, Ben takes the pro-union position and UnJin takes the anti-union position.

The following links were referenced in the podcast and add context to this debate:

Graduate Students in STEM Departments Affirm Their Support for Student Unionization (https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2017/5/30/graduate-students-stem-departments-affirm-support/)

STEM Departments Should Think Twice Before Voting In Favor of Unionization (https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2017/6/1/stem-departments-think-twice-voting-favor-unioniza/)

Effects of Unionization on Graduate Student Employees: Faculty-Student Relations, Academic Freedom, and Pay (http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1731&context=articles)

To comment on this debate or to submit ideas for a follow up debate on unionization, email publisher David Raban at draban@uchicago.edu

Meghana Chandra (MPP '18) engineered and edited this piece.