"Harvard pays well, gives good benefits, and from what I've seen and heard from other graduate students, Harvard is more generous than other private universities," TF Corey M. O'Hara said.

TFs also said that even if they saw a need to do so, organizing would be difficult because graduate students are kept busy by their studies.

At some private institutions, graduate students have been trying to unionize for years, to no avail. At Yale, President Richard C. Levin has stated his continued opposition to giving graduate students collective bargaining rights and encouraged NYU to appeal the decision.

"I don't expect any administrator to support unions because unions reduce their power," Freeman said.

However, Freeman said he thought that if Harvard graduate student TFs decided to unionize, Harvard's administrators would act differently from Yale's.

"I don't think they'd be as stupid as I've seen the Yale administration be," he said. "Yale has a long history of being a jerk in this area. And Harvard has got a very good relationship with its unions so I think that Harvard would be more mature and sensible."

When asked how the administration would respond if TFs here decided to unionize, University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said Harvard did not have any comment at this time, but added that the University has a "very good history of collective bargaining with the unions that operate out of Harvard."