Word: tas
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Since then individual departments have been required to annually submit a plan to Wolcowitz’s office as to their method for hiring and training their teaching fellows from Harvard teaching assistants from other schools (TAs), and undergraduate course assistants...
...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...
...However, TAs at public universities have long been considered state employees and have been able to unionize since 1969, when the University of Wisconsin-Madison first formed a union...
Ruquist said she applauds the NLRB decision because it shows the board is recognizing the changes that have taken place in job descriptions for TAs...
...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...