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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...
...case has not finished its march through the legal system and there is no case being made at Harvard, but for the graduate students at NYU, and potentially at Yale and elsewhere, we applaud this decision and hope it will bring greater fairness to graduate students through the right of collective bargaining...
...think it's good that the teaching they do is work," Most said, referring to the NYU graduate teaching assistants. "But I do think that the teaching itself should be considered a learning experience for the graduate student...
...contrast to at NYU, where teaching assistants have asked for more pay, housing and increased medical coverage, many TFs at Harvard say they are happy with their terms of employment...
...some private institutions, graduate students have been trying to unionize for years, to no avail. At Yale, President Richard C. Levin has stated his continued opposition to giving graduate students collective bargaining rights and encouraged NYU to appeal the decision...