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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Under Trump, Student Labor Organizers Face New Challenges

    August 7, 2025 // Anticipating a rollback of recent NLRB precedent, some unions have withdrawn petitions for recognition, looking for other paths to continue their work.

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    Commentary: Ivy Leaguers Aren’t Auto Workers

    July 21, 2025 // In general, NLRB decisions are fake law made by fake judges who have to interpret a poorly written statute from 90 years ago that is based on assumptions about industrial organization that no longer obtain in the United States. But the NLRB remains powerful nonetheless, and its decisions matter. That’s why Russell Burgett, a doctoral candidate at Cornell University, which is private, is asking the NLRB to overturn the 2016 Columbia ruling. He isn’t a member of the Cornell graduate students’ union, a UE affiliate, and he said in charges filed with the NLRB on Monday that his choice not to join makes it harder for him to complete his education.

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    Cornell University Graduate Student Files Federal Charges Seeking End to Union Boss Control Over Graduate Students

    July 14, 2025 // Student case attacks Obama-era federal labor board ruling that exposed graduate students to union boss power

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