... tools that has been used in this campaign to eviscerate the union movement is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB, effectively the nation's most powerful arbiter of labor matters, is now dominated by Bush appointees who don't disguise their antipathy for the labor movement...

... 444 U.S. 672 (1980), the faculty cannot unionize because they function as managers rather than as workers. Who then do they manage? Apparently not their students, since, per the NLRB’s decision in Brown University 1-RC- 21368, 342 NLRB No. 42 (2004), students who double as research assistants...

... they manage? Apparently not their students, since, per the NLRB’s decision in Brown University 1-RC- 21368, 342 NLRB No. 42 (2004), students who double as research assistants or teaching assistants do not count as employees. Might this latest wrinkle invalidate the professoriate’s status as managers...

... on the wall as far as the temperature of the NLRB goes. In order to head off a reversal of the Brown ruling, they have now reorganized the grad student funding package so that teaching is no longer obligatory—only “encouraged.” Henceforth, there won’t be any TAs...

... you’re talking about Yeshiva or you’re talking about the Brown decision and the way that Bush’s NLRB absolutely gutted hard-won graduate student organizing rights. You ultimately have to deal with the political structure of the United States and the history of partisan...