Bloomberg Law
December 12, 2018, 1:04 PM UTC

Student Organizers Ride Roller Coaster of Scores, Setbacks

Paige Smith
Paige Smith
Reporter
Andrew Wallender
Andrew Wallender
Reporter

Graduate student organizers are ending 2018 with a bang, obtaining union recognition from Columbia University, securing a final contract at The New School, and scrambling to respond to an election appeal at Grinnell College.

The flurry of activity—all in a two-week span—is indicative of college organizing in 2018: major victories alongside threatened or realized setbacks. Students are organizing to account for costs of living and securing pay equity and workplace protections, but schools are pushing back on the “adverse effects” unions could have on campus life.

Multiple representation petitions before the National Labor Relations Board were withdrawn in 2018 over ...

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