Sentences with phrase «graduate assistant unions»

The decision deals a potentially mortal blow to the growing movements for graduate assistant unions at private campuses including Yale, Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, George Washington, University of Southern California, and elsewhere.

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The [graduate assistant] calls me and tells me he's watching the AFC Championship Game alone in the lobby of the Union because he doesn't have a TV.

Graduate assistants at private universities may form unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled today in a case involving Columbia University.

Despite this apparently massive setback, the effort to organize teaching and research assistants on private campuses will continue, insists the United Auto Workers, the national union that the Brown graduate assistants were attempting to join.

In a case called Brown University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that graduate assistants teaching courses and working in labs, libraries, museums, and offices on the private campus in Providence have no right to form a labor union.

According to the NLRB decision, however, Brown graduate assistants are ineligible to form a union because they are not employees.

New York University's graduate student union, which includes only teaching assistants and which the institution voluntarily recognized in 2013, has had successes in this area, says Seana Lymer, unit representative for the union and a Ph.D. candidate in biology.

A favorable PERB ruling would bring all of UC's nearly 6000 postdocs — about 10 % of the nation's total — into an international union that has already organized the UC system's 12,000 graduate teaching assistants, readers, and tutors into the Association of Graduate Student Employeegraduate teaching assistants, readers, and tutors into the Association of Graduate Student EmployeeGraduate Student Employees / UAW.

According to decisions disclosed yesterday, November 1, by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), New York University's graduate, teaching, and research assistants have won the right to form a union.

So, until the NLRB changes its mind on its 2004 decree, graduate assistants can only organize unions at private universities that do not oppose them.

Calling the NLRB ruling «comprehensive and clear,» Elizabeth Bunn, vice president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)-- the union seeking to represent NYU graduate assistants — enthused in a press release that «this decision confirms what academic student employees at campuses across the country know... they are workers and are treated as such by their employers.»

Contract staff, teaching assistants and graduate assistants at Toronto's York University, home to Osgoode Hall Law School, have chosen to strike after their shared labour union, CUPE 3903, rejected the university's «final offer» after six months of financial negotiation.

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