The world of organized labor continues to collide with all aspects of academia. We've recently covered the graduate student assistants seeking union representation. The Board granted review on two cases involving this issue in June. Perhaps seeing a shifting tide, the state of California approved a measure last week which would provide graduate student research assistants at public universities with collective bargaining rights. The full bill can be found here. It is anticipated that this bill could affect more than 14,000 graduate student researchers and result in approximately $7 million in costs to the state universities.
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