T.A.'s at Temple U. Win Right to Collective Bargaining

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruled in October that graduate teaching assistants at Temple University are employees, clearing the way for collective bargaining on that campus and perhaps at other public universities in the state.

In a unanimous six-page decision, the labor board rejected an earlier ruling, rendered by a hearing officer in January, and upheld an appeal by the Temple University Graduate Students Association -- an affiliate of the

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