It also lists all decisions of NLRB administrative law judges. Links are established from the weekly summary index to the summaries and from the summaries to the full text of the decisions. The Board held that New York University's graduate assistants are employees under the National Labor Relations Act and entitled to organize and bargain with their employer even though they are enrolled as students.
Graduate assistants work as teachers or researchers.
They perform their duties for, and under the control of, the Employer's departments or programs. Graduate assistants are paid for their work and are carried on the Employer's payroll system. The Board's broad and historic interpretation of the Act rejects such a narrow reading of the statute. Accordingly, we will not deprive workers who are compensated by, and under the control of, a statutory employer of their fundamental statutory rights to organize and bargain with their employer, simply because they also are students. The decision is by Chairman Truesdale and Member Liebman.