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NLRB Ruling May Block ‘Micro-Unit’ TA Unions

December 18, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
By Scott Jaschik
December 18, 2017

A ruling Friday by the National Labor Relations Board may make it more difficult for unions seeking to organize teaching assistants at private universities to do so on a department-by-department basis, as recently happened at Yale University. Some refer to such unions as "micro-units." The ruling was on a case related to a healthcare business, and generally made it more difficult to unionize subgroups of employees rather than all employees in similar positions.

Read the original post at the Inside Higher Ed website here.