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...between this strike and the baseball strike is that no one cares--not the majority of the Yale students, and hardly any members of the Yale faculty. I wouldn't expect President Clinton to try and settle this one soon. And don't expect the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to end this strike either. They don't even recognize graduate students as workers...
Here we see the heart of the dispute. Yale students are striking because, like the NLRB, Yale refuses to recognize them as workers. And the legitimacy of the strike turns on the question of whether teaching assistants are workers or students. At first, as GESO argues, it would seem one could separate the two capacities. To the extent that they teach, graduate students should be able to exercise their right to collective bargaining like any other University employees...
BASEBALL OWNERS Picked off at first by the NLRB for unfair labor practices
...collapsed this afternoon, killing hopes of a compromise before a team owners' deadline Thursday to impose a controversial cap on players' salaries. Barring a surprise, today's failure to see eye-to-eye makes it likely the players' union will challenge the cap before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), prompting lengthy proceedings and increasing the likelihood that teams will go to spring training with replacement players. Meanwhile, the NLRB hours earlier said it would charge owners with failure to bargain in good faith and with discriminating against union members, specifically because the owners failed to pay almost $8 million...
...billion, workers at the Middleton, Ohio, mill demanded an election to dump a 50-year-old company association and replace it with a United Steelworkers local. The election was held in May, and the USW seemed to win, though nobody actually knows yet: the company got the NLRB to issue an injunction impounding the ballots...