State Labor Board Deals Blow to T.A.'s at University of Illinois

An Illinois labor board has dealt a serious setback to unionization efforts among graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by issuing guidelines that would exclude all teaching assistants and research assistants from the proposed union.

The decision by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board makes eligible for union membership only those graduate assistants who do not teach or perform research and who work in jobs outside of

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