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...federal National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2000 that graduate students at NYU were employees of the university and therefore had the right to unionize. The majority of the board’s members at the time were appointed by President Clinton...
...leader of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), Michael W. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, showed up at the rally here to support the NYU strikers, and he said that SLAM would support a unionization drive at Harvard. But, he added, graduate students “at a place like Harvard are often afraid to speak...
...Strikers have received support from faculty members at NYU and around the globe since NYU issued its theats in the Nov. 28 letter. In early December, 10 professors from the United States, the United Kingdom and France signed a letter to NYU President John Sexton opposing the punishments. They posted the letter online, and it has garnered over 6,000 signatures...
...According to the website, 39 Harvard affiliates have signed the petition, including Professor of Law Janet Halley. She wrote in an e-mail yesterday that NYU “should not change such substantial parts of the academic culture to cram down the union...
...Some NYU graduate assistants who wanted to keep working but who would not cross the strikers’ picket lines moved their classes off campus, creating a potential hassle for undergraduates...