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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #111: Workers’ Rights for Graduate Employees, with Lindsey Dayton
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It’s been a long time coming: the NLRB ruled on August 23 that graduate students who work for their universities are, in fact, workers. Columbia University student workers had petitioned for union recognition in 2014, and now, the board has finally ruled 3-1 to overturn its 2004 decision that gr...