College students working as research and teaching assistants could see their unionization rights on the line thanks to an organizing drive at a small liberal arts college in Iowa.
The case could inadvertently provide the Republican-majority National Labor Relations Board the chance to undo an Obama-era precedent allowing student assistants at private universities to unionize. That potential shift in policy is something major unions have been trying hard to avoid.
Student workers at Grinnell College are set to vote Nov. 27 on whether to expand their union for student dining workers into a campuswide undergraduate-employee union. The college recently retained ...