NLRB
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Grad Students Are Employees: NLRB’s Historic New Ruling
It’s a battle cry that graduate students have been chanting for years: let us organize! Today, in a historic 3-1 ruling, the NLRB declared that graduate students at private universities are, in fact, employees — and are therefore eligible to organize, unionize and bargain as such. This ruling marks a reversal of the 2004 Brown University decision, wherein…
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News Round-Up
Happy Friday! Each week, we come across interesting articles and stories around labor, community, and struggles for equity and justice in our changing world. Here’s a sampling of what we’ve found and liked on the world wide web in recent days: Over at Al Jazeera, Sarah Jaffe writes about the growing cooperative movement in New…
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NLRB Rules McDonalds Jointly Liable for Franchisees
What’s the relationship between corporations and their franchisees? That’s the question at hand in the latest ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In a decision first reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday, General Counsel for the NLRB ruled that McDonald’s is jointly responsible for the actions of its franchise restaurants — creating…
