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Labor Board Rules in Graduate Assistants Case
By Marjorie J. Censer
In July, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Brown University, a case addressing whether graduate assistants are employees under the National Labor Relations Act. The board ruled in a 3 to 2 decision that graduate students are not employees under the act, overruling a 2000 decision that graduate assistants at New York University were employees under the act and could therefore choose to unionize. The AAUP filed amicus briefs in both cases in support of the graduate assistants. For more about the decision, see the State of the Profession column in this issue.
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