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'Blatant scare tactics': Iowa university leads crackdown on student unions
Source: The Guardian
'Blatant scare tactics': Iowa university leads crackdown on student unions
Grinnell College filed an appeal that allows the NLRB to revisit a 2016 ruling that student workers have the right to unionize
Lauren Aratani
Tue 11 Dec 2018 11.00 GMT
A liberal arts college in Iowa is taking a hardline anti-union approach that could put student unions at private American colleges and universities in jeopardy across the whole country.
Grinnell College filed an appeal last week to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the regional office in Minneapolis denied its request to stop a student union vote on 27 November.
Students at the college had overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionizing all student workers on campus.
The appeal gives the Trump-appointed NLRB – which enforces union labor law – an opportunity to revisit its August 2016 Columbia University decision that ruled student workers at private institutions should be considered employees and have the right to unionize.
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Grinnell College filed an appeal that allows the NLRB to revisit a 2016 ruling that student workers have the right to unionize
Lauren Aratani
Tue 11 Dec 2018 11.00 GMT
A liberal arts college in Iowa is taking a hardline anti-union approach that could put student unions at private American colleges and universities in jeopardy across the whole country.
Grinnell College filed an appeal last week to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the regional office in Minneapolis denied its request to stop a student union vote on 27 November.
Students at the college had overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionizing all student workers on campus.
The appeal gives the Trump-appointed NLRB – which enforces union labor law – an opportunity to revisit its August 2016 Columbia University decision that ruled student workers at private institutions should be considered employees and have the right to unionize.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/11/grinnell-college-student-union-appeal-national-labor-relations-board