The nation’s most-elite universities have watched graduate students fight for the right to be represented as employees, knowing that even if teachers and research assistants formed unions, schools were under no obligation to recognize the students in negotiations. Not anymore. A National Labor Relations Board decision granting graduate students the legal protection to unionize now forces private universities to bargain with organized graduate groups, a new reality that’s not sitting too well with schools.

August 24, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post