Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: Part II, The Illinois Experience

Barry M. Rubin
Richard S. Rubin

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DOI: 10.2190/CN.31.3.d

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to build on the findings in our earlier article in this journal, entitled "Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: A Heuristic Approach." In that article, we identified those perceptions that determined a graduate student employee's propensity to join a union based on data collected at Indiana University. Those perceptions were measured through the application of a model that separated the psychological determinants to unionize into three categories: work environment, influence, and beliefs about unions. The results of that statistical analysis indicated that negative beliefs about unions are the strongest determinant of graduate student employees' propensity to unionize. The current research expands the analysis to include data collected from the University of Illinois, and validates and extends our initial findings.

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