Teaching Assistants and Universities Plot Strategy in Union Battle

NLRB ruling sets the stage for new round of organizing drives

Last week, three years of tough organizing by graduate teaching assistants hoping to win a union at New York University boiled down to just one thing: 1,310 yellow ballots.

The ballots had been cast back in April. They were impounded, however, by the National Labor Relations Board during yet another round in the drawn-out legal battle between the union and the university over the teaching assistants' right to

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