August 6, 2004

Graduate Education Is a Seamless Web of Learning and Work, Not Class Warfare

By NELSON LICHTENSTEIN

Article: The NLRB's Ruling on Collective Bargaining

The recent decision by the Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board to exclude graduate students from the protections offered by federal labor law drew a sharp distinction between their role as students and their role as workers. They have to be one or the other, according to the NLRB. No multiple identities, please!

Members of the board ruled 3 to 2,

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