Graduate student unions on a number of private campuses have for years sought recognition from their universities and federal officials, to little avail. But organizing efforts at Cornell University are moving forward, in the form of an agreement on how to proceed until and if a legal barrier to collective bargaining is reversed. The development sets Cornell apart from most other elite privates institutions, which have maintained that teaching and research assistants are students -- not employees entitled to collective bargaining rights -- ahead of a major decision on the issue from the National Labor Relations Board.

June 2, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed