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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...
...labor-friendly President-elect appears poised to reverse the ruling. And coupled with an economic crisis that has shrunk Harvard’s endowment by an unprecedented 22 percent in the four months since July 1, the change could spark a resurgence of unionization among teaching assistants...
...Ariana Paulson, chair of the Yale Graduate Employees and Students Organization, said she looked forward to the Obama administration’s labor-friendly stance and a “new surge of excitement [for unionization] after a bunch of pretty hard years...
...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an economics professor who focuses on labor issues, said it was “absolutely likely” that Bush’s NLRB decision would be repealed.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’s time we had a president who doesn’t choke saying the word ‘union,’” according to remarks on Obama’s Web site...
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