Are international-student TAs and PAs currently represented by the TAA?
F1 and J1 visa students who work as TAs and PAs are included in the bargaining unit that the TAA represents. This is a distinction between the to-be-established RA bargaining unit and the TA-PA bargaining unit. This means that they would not be covered by the collective-bargaining agreement that an RA union would negotiate. In that F1 and J1 visa students would not be part of the bargaining unit and not covered by the contract, they would not be dues-payers. There are roughly 100 F1 and J1 TAs and about 175 F1 and J1 PAs. As F1 and J1 visa student-workers are included in the TAA bargaining unit and covered by the contract, they pay the same 1.5 percent dues that all members of the bargaining unit contribute.
