Yale Union Election Is Latest Move in Campus Labor Renaissance

As many as 4,000 Yale University graduate students are set to vote Wednesday and Thursday on whether to unionize, as labor organizing at private colleges heats up in the wake of Democrats regaining control of the National Labor Relations Board.

In November alone, unions won elections to represent student workers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Barnard College, filed a petition to represent 3,500 students at Northwestern University, and received an election date for a 3,000-student bargaining unit at Boston University that will vote next week.

The flurry of NLRB activity is evidence that university students working as teaching and research ...