The National Labor Relations Board has revived the efforts of graduate students and the United Auto Workers to form unions at Columbia University and the New School, according to
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The National Labor Relations Board has revived the efforts of graduate students and the United Auto Workers to form unions at Columbia University and the New School, according to Capital New York. The website, which reports on city and state politics, says the board reinstated the groups’ petitions to be recognized after they were denied, on February 6, by the NLRB’s regional director for New York City.
In separate, brief rulings issued on Friday, the board said it was granting the groups at Columbia and the New School a review of the regional director’s decision, which cited a Brown University case that established that graduate students are not workers. The rulings also come on the heels of a tentative labor agreement between New York University and its graduate students that union leaders there characterized as including “historic gains.”
The Brown decision, in 2004, limited graduate-student unions at private colleges to only those whose institutions recognize them voluntarily. The NYU graduate employees’ union so far is the only one to have won such recognition.
