September 7, 2001

Temple Teaching Assistants Win Ruling in Union Drive

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

The attempt by graduate teaching assistants at Temple University to unionize has moved a step closer to reality.

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has denied Temple's bid to invalidate a March vote in which almost 95 percent of the TA's who voted chose to organize.

The university had disagreed with an earlier board finding that the TA's are "employees" under state law. In its response, the board relied on findings by the National Labor Relations Board in other attempts by

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