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Yale officials won a symbolic victory on Monday in their six-year battle to stave off a graduate student union, the Graduate Employees and Student Organization (GESO), at the university...
...order earlier this week, Michael O. Miller, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), ruled the grade-strike that GESO held at the beginning of 1996 was not protected under labor law. The 'grade-strike' involved nearly 200 graduate students withholding grades of undergraduate courses, according to union leaders...
...Monday, the judge issued a three sentence order and said the body of his decision would follow shortly. Both parties believe that his decision will not answer the question of whether the GESO members are students or employees, leaving the most significant question in this case unanswered...
...This decision fully vindicates the action of the Yale administration and faculty in not allowing GESO tactics of holding undergraduate grades to gain them recognition as a labor union," said Dorothy K. Robinson, vice president and general counsel at Yale...
Attorneys for GESO filed a complaint earlier this year alleging Yale's response to the strike constituted retaliation and aimed at preventing the union's formation, which is illegal under labor...