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Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided in favor of a group of graduate students at New York University (NYU) who had wished to unionize but had been prevented by the university. This is a historic decision and an important advance in the welfare of graduate students and potentially other student-employees at universities nationwide...
...with so much of the teaching, clerical and secretarial work at many universities, have rights to collective bargaining. "I must conclude there is simply no basis to deny collective bargaining rights to statutory employees merely because they are employed by an educational institution while enrolled as a student," wrote NLRB Regional Director Daniel Silverman in his decision...
...case, brought to the NLRB by the United Auto Workers (UAW), involved a collection of NYU graduate students who had attempted to hold a union election, prompting objections from the NYU administration...
Yesterday's ruling, released by NLRB Regional Director Daniel Silverman, held that the law must consider NYU's graduate students employees of the university, entitled to the same rights as other workers, because they teach...
Last week, the Yale administration agreed to follow the NLRB's recommendations on the broad question of whether graduate students have the right to organize...