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This week, the graduate students of New York University (NYU) officially formed the first graduate student union at a private American university. This historic development came about as a result of last Aprils unprecedented National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling which granted them the right to do so. After losing a court appeal, NYU was finally forced to recognize the union. We hope this long-deserved recognition of graduate students as true employees of the university will stimulate improvement of graduate student life at private universities across the country...
...past 24 years, the NLRB has viewed TAs at private universities as students only. They were not able to achieve employee status, preventing them from claiming unionizing and bargaining rights...
According to Ruquist, the NLRB decision has strengthened student resolve to more forcefully support unionization at Yale...
Ruquist said she applauds the NLRB decision because it shows the board is recognizing the changes that have taken place in job descriptions...
...work I do as a TA is no different from what professors did before TAs existed," Ruquist said. "The fact that the NLRB finally caught up with the changes shows that the Yale administration is more out of touch than they may have thought...