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By Hub Staff on 05/25/2023
Published in Hopkins Medicine - Spring/Summer 2023

The number of Johns Hopkins Ph.D. students across the university’s Ph.D. programs who will now be represented by TRU-UE (Teachers and Researchers United—United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) in collective bargaining with the university.

The vote to unionize, held by the National Labor Relations Board, took place in February at three Johns Hopkins campuses, with 2,053 students voting in favor of unionization and 67 voting against.

The unionization of Hopkins Ph.D. students is part of a growing national trend. Graduate students at Yale voted to unionize earlier this year, joining successful recent unionization efforts at Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown and many other universities. 

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