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Romance, drama, espionage, ABBA, and...chess? The 1986 rock musical “Chess” features all of the above and the Murray Head hit “One Night in Bangkok.” The brainchild of Tim Rice and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus...
Four years ago, a Bush-appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board declared that graduate students at private universities were not statutory employees—a decision that effectively neutered collective bargaining efforts by teaching assistants and relegated student unionization to the back burner.
Richard B. Freeman, an economics professor who focuses on labor issues, said it was “absolutely likely” that Bush’s NLRB decision would be repealed. President-elect Barack Obama championed organized labor in his campaign, saying in April that “it?...
But even before the 2004 decision, Harvard graduate teaching assistants were lukewarm toward unionization, an attitude that may persist even if the decision is reversed.
“If the [NLRB] decision is reversed, that certainly gives us a leg to stand on,” Paulson said. “If we regained our status as workers at private institutions instead of apprentices, when we demonstrate a majority, the university would be required to...