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...decision that activists say could ripple through the Ivy League, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Friday that graduate students at Brown University were employees legally entitled to form a union...
...decision was almost identical to a spring 2000 NLRB ruling on New York University (NYU), but Friday’s announcement applies to universities in New England rather than the mid-Atlantic states, according to Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani, a member of the Brown Graduate Employment Organization (BGEO) who has been active in efforts to organize a union at Brown...
...NLRB ruling was quite a hopeful sign for us, and because it’s New England, especially [a sign to] the Ivy League,” Jahanbani said. “It’s in the back of everybody’s mind that we can be a beacon of hope, because there was definitely a ripple effect the NYU success...
...Brown, however, Jahanbani said that students were planning to take advantage of the ruling. NLRB regulations require that eligible graduate students at Brown be able to vote in a secret ballot election on whether to unionize within 30 days...
Whether Harvard TFs decide to unionize should be the decision of Harvard TFs. By accepting the NLRB decision instead of lending support to those who are fighting it, the Harvard community has the opportunity to take the high road where Yale has failed. Harvard prides itself on being a model for other private universities in our educational excellence; we should set a good example in our labor decisions as well...