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August 24, 2016

NLRB Ruling: Graduate Students at Private Universities Can Unionize
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Graduate students won a significant labor victory Tuesday, when the
National Labor Relations Board ruled graduate student teachers and
research assistants at private universities have the right to unionize.
The 3-1 ruling stemmed from a case brought by Columbia graduate
students. It overturns a 2004 ruling that denied collective bargaining
rights to some graduate student teachers. American Federation of
Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, "The truth is graduate workers
are the glue that holds higher education institutions together-without
their labor, classes wouldn't get taught, exams wouldn't get graded and
office hours wouldn't be held."


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