Graduate student workers would be considered employees with the ability to unionize under federal labor law, according to a new bill Democratic Rep.
The Wisconsin Democrat’s Respect Graduate Student Workers Act (no bill number) would block the National Labor Relations Board’s push to develop a regulatory proposal that would prevent graduate teaching assistants and other student workers at private universities and colleges from receiving federal protections that grant most private-sector workers the right to form or join a union.
The NLRB’s proposal would reverse its Obama-era decision in a 2016 case involving the Trustees of ...
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