[dmitrygr]

A PhD student at UChicago whom I know well told me that they significantly limited who was allowed to vote to make this happen.

Not allowed to vote if:

* Not currently onsite (field work or pre-grad research elsewhere for a year)

* If you were not onsite in the previous year (anyone who did field work last year)

* Anyone who took a year break from teaching was not allowed to vote even if returning to teaching this year

* Anyone in 1st or 2nd year not allowed to vote (despite most years left to live under this union)

[dcre]

“They” being who? The criteria were negotiated by the union organizers and the university, with the NLRB mediating.

[dmitrygr]

Then there you have your answer. That is who set them

[TillE]

So both sides, plus a government body which is going to be skewed anti-labor in a Republican administration.

[dcre]

I can’t believe I have to spell this out, but: then it would seem difficult to claim the criteria were structured to bias the process in either direction. If anything, it would be the organization with millions of dollars at their disposal that would have the upper hand.

[vkou]

This seems to contradict the criteria in a child post, citing. [1]

Is there any citation for your claims?

From the cited list, it seems that anyone who got paid on a regular basis by the university over the past two years could vote.

[1] http://knowthefacts.uchicago.edu/

[HarryHirsch]

Know the Facts is provided by the University of Chicago.

Ah. Good to know. No further questions, your honour.

[dmitrygr]

Autumn 2016 is only one year ago... just fyi, not two.

So no contradiction - that is only ppl who taught in the last one year. So it does not include those who took a year off or did field work.

[rflrob]

Any idea what the criteria were? Was it by department? Degree status? Teaching vs fellowship status?

[mathperson]

http://knowthefacts.uchicago.edu/ eligible voters are "All graduate students in the School of Divinity, School of Social Service Administration, Division of the Social Sciences, Division of the Humanities, Division of the Biological Sciences, and Division of the Physical Sciences who are or were compensated as full-time and regular part-time teaching assistants, research assistants, course assistants, workshop coordinators, writing interns, preceptors, language assistants, instructors, lecturers, lectors, and teaching interns, in at least one quarter of Autumn 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, or Autumn 2017, and who have not yet attained their degree or otherwise completed their course of study."

Some wikipedia resulted in 600 (law)+ 400 ( medschool)+ 3140 (business)+noise term ~5000 grad students. I bet the rest of the gap is just low turnout

[dmitrygr]

I updated the parent comment