In a decision passed down today, the NLRB has affirmed that the graduate
students of NYU are employees, entitled to union representation and
collective bargaining. These rights have been established in the public
sector for many years, but this is the first graduate student organization
in the private sector to win the right to unionization, and thereby sets a
legal precedent for all private universities. The struggle is not won yet.
It is almost certain that the university administration will appeal, and
the case will then go much further than the regional NLRB court.  But this
is a great victory, and only good can come of it.

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