The National Labor Relations Board voted on Wednesday to consider the case of graduate students at the New School who are trying to form a union. The decision to review an official’s July ruling that blocked the case could signal a willingness by the board to overturn a 2004 precedent, in a case at Brown University, seen as standing in the way of graduate-student unionization at private universities. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education… (Image courtesy Wikipedia CC4.0)
Today’s decision by the National Labor Relations Board is a tremendous victory for the UAW and our members, graduate student employees at Columbia University and at New School University. For more than a decade the UAW has fought relentlessly alongside graduate student employees in private universities to win the right to bargain collectively. Earlier this week, we reached a tentative agreement with NYU for a contract that accomplishes substantial gains in compensation and healthcare. Now, this NLRB decision – fundamentally this is a victory for all graduate student employees who deserve the same fairness and organizing rights at Columbia, The ...
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