According to the IBD report, The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union is now embroiled in a fierce battle with Yale University in attempting to organize teaching assistants there. The United Auto Workers union also is trying to organize graduate students who teach at the University of California. Many graduate teaching assistants at those schools contend that they are employees of those universities and have a right to unionize. Regardless of rights, however, the IBD report contains research that was released by the National Center for Policy Analysis on Aug. 3, which shows that Yale doctoral students receive plenty of benefits for being teaching assistants without joining the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union. Other critics of unionization contend that unions would subject schools to legal harassment, which would also disrupt the educational system.
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