Princeton graduate students appear less likely to unionize than peers
The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that graduate students who are paid to teach or perform research at private colleges and universities have the right to unionize.While this ruling gives graduate students at Princeton the legal right to form a union, there is not as much interest in exercising that right here as at some peer institutions.Graduate students at New York University and Yale have been particularly active in the fight to secure unionization rights.Last spring, 1,500 NYU graduate students voted to form a union ? a move that was supported by a regional labor board decision.