Friends of the Court? Grad Student Organizing

Autor/in	Ambash, Joseph W.
Titel	Friends of the Court? Grad Student Organizing
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, (2016), (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Federal Legislation; Labor Legislation; Unions; Undergraduate Students; Teaching Assistants; Research Assistants; Collective Bargaining; Strikes; Private Colleges; Employer Employee Relationship; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Bundesrecht; Labor law; Arbeitsrecht; Forschungspersonal; Tarifverhandlung; Strike; Streik; Privathochschule
Abstract	The recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the "Columbia University"case granting students who serve as teaching or research assistants at private universities the right to unionize dealt a major blow to private higher education as we know it. In a long-anticipated decision, the NLRB ruled that any student who performs services for an institution, under its control, for compensation, is a "common-law" employee entitled to unionize under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB's sweeping decision lumped together undergraduates (who may serve, for example, as graders and discussion leaders), master's degree candidates and PhD candidates in its definition of employees. The decision ignored the fact that many students must serve as teaching assistants or research assistants as part of their master's or PhD degree requirement, even if they would otherwise not want to do that "job." The decision's lone dissenter, Republican Philip A. Miscamarra, anticipated that the strikes and other economic weapons that often accompany collective bargaining "will wreak havoc" and may have "devastating consequences" for higher education, particularly for the students who are trying to earn their degrees. The U.S. Supreme Court long ago stated that that "the principles developed for use in the industrial setting cannot be 'imposed blindly on the academic world,'" because the interests at stake in the academy are different than those in an industrial workplace. Despite this observation, the NLRB ruled that the industrial model of the National Labor Relations Act is appropriate for private-sector campuses. This stunning will, if unchecked, forever change private universities. Like it or not, applicants will no longer be "admitted" to unionized institutions; they will be new hires, no different in many respects from hourly workers in industry. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01