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News and Notes: Columbia graduate students trying to form a union

Columbia graduate students are attempting to unionize, in an effort to gain greater recognition and rights, according to The Columbia Spectator.

More than 100 of the graduate students rallied on Friday in an effort to have Columbia recognize their union, and more than 1,700 student workers have signed cards since September in support of the cause.

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The union would be a subsection of the union that represents clerical workers at Columbia, Barnard and Teachers College — the United Auto Workers Local 2110. The graduate students’ union is called Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers.

Protestors brought a letter to Columbia president Lee Bollinger on Friday asking for better job security and wage security.

The organizers of the union have said that they will attempt to gain certification as a union from the National Labor Relations Board if Columbia does not recognize them as part of the United Auto Workers Local 2110.

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