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...said. “These were economic issues.”University officials declined to comment for this article beyond the statement.In the university statement, Beckman noted that private universities have no obligation to collectively bargain, citing a 2004 decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).The university had originally recognized the union in 2002 after the NLRB ruled in 2000 that graduate students are workers and have the right to unionize. 2004, the NLRB reversed course and ruled against unionization efforts at Brown University, which would “intrude upon the academic relationship between the university...
Levin has repeatedly stated that Yale would uphold the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) current policy on graduate student unionization, which states that teaching assistants at private universities are not employees according to the definition in the National Labor Relations...
...decision last July, the NLRB ruled against unionization attempts at Brown University and stated that extending collective action agreements to teaching assistants would “intrude upon the academic relationship between the university and students...
Yale President Richard C. Levin—known as a leading figure opposed to graduate student organizing—will likely contest results from an NLRB election, GESO organizers said...
...NLRB confidential election “free of coercion or intimidation” is the only result the university will honor, he said...