Amicus Brief to the NLRB in Support of New York University

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Amicus Brief to the NLRB in Support of New York University

July 24, 2012

ACE submitted this brief to the National Labor Relations Board as it decides whether to allow private college graduate students to unionize in two cases involving New York University. The NLRB requested parties to file briefs on several questions, including whether it should modify or overrule an earlier decision which held that graduate student assistants at Brown University (RI) did not have rights to unionize under the National Labor Relations Act.

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