In September, fourth-year mathematics Ph.D student Benjamin Logsdon filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers — the College’s graduate student workers union. Logsdon alleged that the union discriminated against him by failing to accommodate his request to be removed from the bargaining unit based on his religious beliefs.
Shortly after GOLD-UE’s contract agreement with the College in June, Logsdon requested to be removed from the bargaining unit — meaning he would no longer be represented by the union — because of the group’s “positions” on Israel, according to National Right to Work Foundation media coordinator Jacob Comello. The NRWF — a private legal organization that aims to “eliminate coercive union power and compulsory unionism abuses,” according to its website — is providing Logsdon with legal counsel.
“Logsdon is a Christian whose sincere religious beliefs put him at odds with GOLD union officials and the radical activity and ideological positions they are promoting, especially as regards to Israel,” Comello wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth…