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Feb 6, 2018

Are Graduate-Students Assistants Employees Under the NLRA? The Answer of the Obama Board Will Not be the Final Word

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A 2016 decision of the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) finding that the graduate students at Columbia University were employees under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) has been teed up for review by the Court of Appeals. In order to obtain appellate review of the Board’s decision, Columbia University has refused to bargain with the union certified to represent its graduate-student assistants.

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