Summary
With a 3-2 Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board and a Republican nominee as the Board’s general counsel, the future seems dim for Local 33, Yale’s graduate student union.
Local 33 won labor elections in eight academic departments last spring, but the University has refused to come to the table as it appeals the legal foundation of the union elections. The ruling on those appeals will be made by an NLRB different from the one that laid the groundwork for the Local 33 elections with a landmark decision involving Columbia University in August 2016.
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William Gould, a former chairman of the NLRB, said the new iteration of the labor board will likely reverse many of the board’s Obama-era decisions, including, almost certainly, the Columbia case.
“The Columbia case is a low-hanging fruit,” Gould said. “The new board will move quick on it.”
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