On a PhD you work for yourself - you shouldn’t need a union against yourself!
This is in principle illegal, but because the institutes don't have any automatic time-tracking, you are instead expected to lie on your time-sheets and to underreport the time you've worked.
What field do you work in? Modern science is team science. I think the paper I have under review right now has... six authors? That's pretty average for the particular interdisciplinary collaboration I happen to work in right now.
It would just be silly to claim that every other junior author on the paper is working for me, as the first author, rather than admit that I work for my adviser (who I haven't complained about here because I lucked out and got a very good one).
Computer science.
> It would just be silly to claim that every other junior author on the paper is working for me
Exactly - the all work for themselves. I'm sure they all have their own research goals and they come together on papers along the way.
But what you need to focus on is the publications you achieve. You achieve them for yourself not your advisor.
Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.
Give us what we want or... we'll quit our degrees and throw away years of our lives?
Give us what we want or you have no teachers and your research output drops to near-zero. Most of the actual work of scientific research is done by what we politely euphemize as "early career researchers" or "junior authors": grad-students and postdocs. Tenured and tenure-track professors don't do the bulk of the bench-work, even when they really enjoy it.
The membership is based of being a GSI, but a lot of the negotiations apply to all PhD students.