Bill in Congress Would Let TA's Organize at Private Colleges

A bill introduced in Congress by the chairmen of the education committees of the Senate and House of Representatives would take the political mystery out of whether graduate assistants at private colleges have the right to form labor unions.

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled both ways. After its landmark 2000 ruling, which declared that graduate students at New York University could unionize, a wave of organizing efforts followed. But that movement faltered four years later,

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