Universities deny graduate students’ unionization efforts

By Kate Hardiman

Published February 13, 2018 1:47am ET

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Universities deny graduate students’ unionization efforts — The National Labor Relations Board granted graduate students the ability to unionize in 2016, but since then only New York University has actually established a bargaining agreement with its graduate students. (AP Photo/Pat Little) | PAT LITTLE

Private colleges and universities across the nation are beginning to push back in droves against graduate students’ hopes for collective bargaining.

Columbia University sent a letter last Tuesday saying it would appeal to a federal court rather than engage in bargaining, following the trend that Yale, Boston College, and others began. Georgetown University formally declined to even acknowledge the creation of a graduate student union in early December.

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