Grinnell Students Seek to End Union Bid (1)

Students at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, are asking the National Labor Relations Board to end their petition to expand a union of dining workers to the entire student workforce. The union would have been the country’s first campuswide student union at a private college.

The students filed the withdrawal on Dec. 13 “in recognition of the national consequences of our fight,” a Dec. 14 statement from the union said. An NLRB regional director will now have to approve the withdrawal request, likely next week.

The college told the union that it would oppose a withdrawal, according to the union’s ...