November 28, 2003
Graduate-Student Unions Play a Waiting Game
Union leaders have found that organizing graduate students is hard, since turnover is high and many graduate students have their heads buried in their work. Being in limbo, while legal appeals to the union bids at four private universities drag on, just makes things worse.
In 2000, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that teaching assistants at New York University could unionize under federal labor law. That landmark decision led to organizing drives and elections at Brown,
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