Over the last two years, plenty of ink has been spilled about the attempt by football players at Northwestern University to form a union. The drive was shut down by the National Labor Relations Board in August. But the debate over college athletes unionizing may have obscured discussion about another group on campus likely to make it to the bargaining table—graduate students.
On Oct. 30, an NLRB regional director in New York City rejected an attempt by Columbia University students—both graduates and undergraduates—who have teaching and research duties to hold a union election. Although this is a setback for the United Auto Workers-backed students, who believe the work they do makes them employees of Columbia under the National Labor Relations Act and therefore qualified for union representation, the legal fight over their status is far from over.
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