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Will Grad Student Unionization Lose Steam Under Trump

November 09, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
By Nick Roll
November 9, 2017

Advocates for graduate student unionization at private colleges, underway for decades, were hopeful in the early years of the Obama administration that they would reach a breakthrough with a Democratic-appointed National Labor Relations Board.

Despite some setbacks, they eventually made progress with the NLRB - but it wasn't long before Donald Trump's 2016 presidential win added to organizers' problems. In September, the U.S. Senate confirmed his second nomination to the NLRB, pushing the five-member board into a Republican majority.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.