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FL When the ballots were counted, it was clear that graduate employees at Florida State University wanted a union. By an ovenvhelming tally of 448 to 140, FSU grad employees voted in favor of the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) as their collective bargaining representative. The new UFF affiliate- the FSU Graduate Assistants United - will represent 2,800 graduate employees.

Key issues during the campaign included concerns about increasing workloads, substandard pay, expensive health insurance that employees had to purchase and a lack of input on working conditions.

"We teach a majority of me classes at FSU," says FSU-GAU co-president Danielle Holbrook. "We are the largest …