December 10, 1999

Decision in Yale Case Leaves Graduate Students and University Both Claiming Victory

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

A 1995 grade strike by graduate teaching assistants at Yale University violated labor law, according to a ruling last week by a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board. But the panel declined to rule on the big question in the case: Are T.A.'s employees?

Instead, the labor board sent that question back to an administrative-law judge to let him decide.

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