A grade strike there in December of 1995 led to reprisals from faculty towards the graduate students for withholding undergraduate grades. Yale also set up a Web site to provide the university's opinion, as well as a history of the unionization drive, a legal summary on the history of graduate-student unionization and a letter saying graduate assistants would be punished if they withheld grades. That action led to a complaint against Yale by the NLRB's General Counsel. But in 1997, the judge hearing the complaint dismissed it after Yale filed a motion to dismiss the complaint because the grade strike was not protected under federal law. The judge refused to rule as to whether graduate assistants were employees.
Appeals are ongoing.
NYU and the UAW finished presenting their versions of facts to the NLRB on Nov. 5. Now they must submit briefs by Jan. 1 outlining their arguments. Berne suspects NYU would appeal the NLRB decision if it ruled against the University. And regardless of how this comes out, it's going to be that way down the line. Links These sites are not part of NYU's Department of Journalism j-post, and NYU's Department of Journalism has no control over their content or availability.