November 8, 2002

Cornell's Teaching Assistants Reject Unionization

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

The United Auto Workers suffered a landslide defeat last month in its attempt to unionize graduate assistants at Cornell University, dealing a setback to efforts to organize at private universities.

By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Cornell students voted against forming a union that would have represented about 2,300 teaching and research assistants on the campus. More than 1,350 graduate students voted against the union; 580 supported it.

The union would have been the second such

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