The National Labor Relations Board is revisiting the controversial 2016 ruling that allowed graduate student workers at private universities to form unions, reigniting a fight at some of the nation's most prestigious universities.
Brown University in Providence, R.I. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Reporter covering the economics of education Email Bio Follow May 23 at 6:29 PM The National Labor Relations Board is set to revisit a 2016 ruling that granted teaching and research assistants at private universities legal protection to form unions, a move that could disrupt collective bargaining at some of the nation’s elite schools.
“We are disappointed in the Trump Labor Board’s willingness to call into question our labor rights and the progress we have made,” said Jess Issacharoff, a doctoral candidate in literature at Duke University. “Continuing attacks on our rights as workers will only force us to escalate otherwise easily resolved issues to protests, occupations and strikes.”
Rather than become mired in litigation, Duke students withdrew their petition and formed a union without formal legal recognition or collective bargaining rights. SEIU suspects this approach will become more popular among graduate workers if the labor board shuts down the legal route to a union.
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