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...Columbia, hundreds of teaching assistants walked out of classes April 29 after the university appealed a decision favoring graduate student unionization by a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB...
...committee of graduate students that formed last year has begun asking students to sign cards indicating their wish to receive union representation, the first step required by the NLRB for unionization...
Once organizers obtain signatures from 30 percent of potential union members--—in this case graduate student teaching fellows and research assistants—they can file for recognition as a union from the regional office of the NLRB...
Friendly Professor of Law Paul C. Weiler, who specializes in labor law, says “it’s not uncommon” for the NLRB to reverse the decisions of previous boards, but adds that graduate student unionization may not be the new board’s focus...
Brown argued to the NLRB that its case differed from NYU’s because the school requires its graduate students to teach as part of their degree requirements, but NLRB Region One (New England) Director Rosemary Pye was unconvinced...