March 16, 2001

A Big Breakthrough for T.A. Unions

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

NYU becomes first private institution to negotiate, but will others follow?

Hundreds of New York University graduate students streamed into Judson Memorial Church near campus. The seats filled quickly, leaving dozens standing. It was March 1, more than a month after the National Labor Relations Board had ordered the university to bargain with the new teaching-assistant union.

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