Posted on 05/05/2024 5:15:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Graduate Student Union flouts 36-year-old Supreme Court ruling on "political and non-representational agenda and expenditures," says legal group that won the case, now representing students.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth has thus far survived the purge of Ivy League presidents in the wake of their widely criticized testimony before Congress that calls for genocide against Jews don't inherently violate campus codes.
However, MIT itself may have a problem with multiple federal agencies for its response to campus activism against Israel,
Though it's no longer on the Department of Education's list of open investigations for Title VI "shared ancestry" violations following MIT's addition in December, shortly after Kornbluth's testimony, MIT could still face National Labor Relations Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations.
Its Graduate Student Union is breaking the law by refusing to stop using dues from grad students to pay for its anti-Israel activism upon their opt-out, according to an NLRB complaint by the National Right to Work Foundation filed on behalf of a civil engineering graduate student.
The union is "flouting layers upon layers of federal law to compel students to fund their radical political agenda,” NRWF President Mark Mix said. The complaint names MIT itself "for its role in enforcing the union scheme and continuing to collect dues."
NRWF is also representing several Jewish grad students in an EEOC complaint against GSU and United Electrical Workers (UE) for rejecting their religious accommodation requests to opt out of dues supporting "anti-Semitic advocacy" such as the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
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MIT’s Graduate Student Union has absolutely nothing to fear from any department of the Federal Government.
They are literally “above the law,” like so much else that the Democrat Left finds helpful.
This is totally insane.
I hope that people will investigate these “communist universities” before they send their children there.
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