MIT’s diverse graduate student workforce, which has been attempting to unionize seeking a safe and equitable work environment for all, was declared outside the inclusive umbrella of MIT’s DEI policies because … look, squirrel! Instead, MIT’s Chancellor and Provost have embarked on an anti-union campaign designed to keep uppity graduate students in their place.
Under modern indentured servitude contracts beyond the reach of protective labor laws, graduate students receive an advanced education in return for working as teaching assistants and lab slaves, on the promise that some lucky fraction may one day become lab-slave owners of their own. “Fat chance,” scoffed Joe Postdoc, 42, who has unsuccessfully applied for assistant professor positions at 497 different universities only to be told that despite his half-dozen publications in Science and Nature he did not have the proper BIPOCLGBTQIA qualifications.