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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Yale grad students vote to unionize after decadeslong push

    January 11, 2023 // Graduate students across the U.S., both at public and private institutions, have pushed in recent years to organize and bargain collectively. Columbia University, another Ivy League school, in 2018 agreed to begin contract negotiations with a union representing its graduate student teaching and research assistants, ending a long battle in which the university denied them the right to unionize.

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    News Article ● Unionization Unions

    Spurred on by SWC-UAW contract, student workers nationwide pursue greater workplace protections

    February 26, 2022 // The union's victories have spurred student-worker unions across the nation to fight for similar goals

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