U.Penn students granted right to form a union
A Nov. 21 decision by the National Labor Relations board will allow 1,000 graduate assistants at the University of Pennsylvania to form a union.
Dorothy L. Moore-Duncan, the Labor Relations Board regional director, concluded that the students should be considered university employees.
Eleven months prior to the decision, the Organizers of Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania filed a petition to form a union but was the university declined the request.
The union would consist of teaching and research assistants. Students still have to approve the union, and elections will be scheduled during the 2003 spring semester.
The university plans on appealing the decision, University of Pennsylvania spokesperson Lori Doyle said in a Chronicle of Higher Education article.
"We don't believe the decision makes sense for graduate students at Penn and are confident that the students themselves, like their counterparts at Cornell, would come to the same conclusion," Doyle said.
Cornell University graduate students recently voted against forming a union of graduate assistants in Ithaca.
--Compiled by Deirdre Murphy
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