A Tufts University international graduate worker recently faced retaliation by her adviser for reporting that they required her to work a significant amount of hours as an unpaid teaching assistant, which violated her union contract. Later, the graduate worker was removed from her doctoral program.
Tufts is choosing to tolerate and accept exploitative and retaliatory behavior from faculty. This is unacceptable.
After being forced out of the doctoral program that she intended to complete, her student visa is expected to expire in September 2026. This worker was not even given the opportunity to find a different adviser at Tufts, and she is not being given sufficient time to apply to other doctoral programs or conduct a proper job search.
Read more and sign on to demand that:
- the graduate student be re-enrolled immediately in her doctoral program
- this worker is awarded compensation for losing her summer stipend and losing her doctoral program enrollment after reporting bargaining contract violations
- this worker is provided transitional support to move to a new lab to remain in the program
- this worker’s failing grades are corrected