NLRB Ruling Slows Graduate Student Unions

In a major setback for graduate students trying to form unions at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, the National Labor Relations Board has reversed a 2000 ruling and ruled that graduate students at private universities are students, not workers. Although the decision does not affect public universities, it makes the future of a number of organizing efforts currently underway uncertain.

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