What the NLRB Giveth, The NLRB Taketh Away: Contrasting Views Concerning Graduate Student Unions

(With John H. Shannon, Seton Hall University)

International Journal of Arts and Humanities

Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 59-72 (October 2015)

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Are graduate students—teaching assistants (TAs), research assistants (RAs) and Graduate assistants (GAs)—employees?   Or do they occupy a different status under contemporary American labor law?  In order to answer this question, two decisions of the National Labor Relations Board will be analyzed:  New York University and Brown University—yielding very different results and very different consequences!