*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Graduate student workers’ rights to unionize are threatened by Trump administration proposal Author: Celine McNicholas https://www.epi.org/people/celine-mcnicholas/, Margaret Poydock https://www.epi.org/people/margaret-poydock/, and Julia Wolfe https://www.epi.org/people/julia-wolfe/ Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

*Date: *Dec 19, 2019 Summary: An increasing number of graduate student workers across the country are seeking to exercise these rights at the private universities where they work while they pursue their education. However, in September, the Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB/board) proposed a rule that would deprive graduate teaching assistants and other student employees at private universities of the rights to organize and collectively bargain

*Link: *http://bit.ly/2PGpBPx

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