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...drivers decided Sunday to ask Teamsters Local 379 for union affiliation. After researching National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) precedents, the Teamsters decided Wednesday that the NLRB would dismiss the drivers' petition for a union election "in a minute...
...Teamsters did agree to support the drivers, even if it could not be done through the NLRB. "We're ready to go and shut down Harvard if we could," a Teamsters spokesman said...
Although the NLRB decided this case in 1977, its description of the student-teacher relationship has not applied since the days when the Boylston Professor of English exercised his right to graze a cow in the Yard...
...relevant NLRB case states that the board generally has not allowed students who are employed by their own schools in a capacity unrelated to their course of study to unionize, either independently, or in affiliation with outside labor units...
...NLRB reasoned that collective bargaining among students "would not be in the public interest." The Board really meant that unionization would force students without jobs to pay higher tuition in order to fund the increased wages of student workers. The NLRB thus subordinated the rights of student workers, who generally can least affort the cost of an education, to the rights of non-workers, who in most cases don't need the money...