emma_goldman
9th September 2006, 22:07
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NYU Graduate Student Strike Ends With A Whimper
After so much fuss being made in the past year about whether NYU would
cave and recognize its graduate students union in light of a recent NLRB
decision finding that such students are not statutory employees for
purposes of the NLRA, the whole affair has apparently now come to a
quiet end. Inside Higher Ed reports that all graduate students, even
the union organizers, are now back teaching classes at NYU, and it is
safe to say, without a union.
No better example, I would explain to my labor law students, of why it
is so important to be considered an employee under the NLRA and have
Section 7 rights to engage in self-organization, collective bargaining,
and concerted activities for mutual aid and protection in order to have
even a fighting chance of being taking seriously by one's employer.
Also, the outcome of this dispute helps to explain why so much is at
stake in the supervisory status cases now pending before the National
Labor Relations Board.
Paul Secunda
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NYU Graduate Student Strike Ends With A Whimper
After so much fuss being made in the past year about whether NYU would
cave and recognize its graduate students union in light of a recent NLRB
decision finding that such students are not statutory employees for
purposes of the NLRA, the whole affair has apparently now come to a
quiet end. Inside Higher Ed reports that all graduate students, even
the union organizers, are now back teaching classes at NYU, and it is
safe to say, without a union.
No better example, I would explain to my labor law students, of why it
is so important to be considered an employee under the NLRA and have
Section 7 rights to engage in self-organization, collective bargaining,
and concerted activities for mutual aid and protection in order to have
even a fighting chance of being taking seriously by one's employer.
Also, the outcome of this dispute helps to explain why so much is at
stake in the supervisory status cases now pending before the National
Labor Relations Board.
Paul Secunda