October 6, 2000

NYU Professors' Views of Graduate Students' Unions

To the Editor:

In the June 9 issue, a letter signed by three New York University colleagues -- Toby Miller, Ellen Willis, and Jeff Goodwin -- commented on the position taken by the N.Y.U. Faculty Council on the question of appealing the regional National Labor Relations Board's decision that graduate assistants are employees with the right to unionize ("In Fighting a Union, Are N.Y.U. Administrators Also Threatening Academic Values?," Letters to the Editor). Because of the summer