Dive Brief:
- A Michigan law intended to stop University of Michigan graduate student researchers from unionizing is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
- Graduate student research assistants there have been trying to form a union for years, but have been blocked by a state labor panel and the Michigan Legislature.
- About 2,200 graduate students employed by University of Michigan professors to assist in non-teaching work are covered by the ruling.
Dive Insight:
Other graduate students — such as those with teaching duties — were already recognized as having the right to organize. This situation mirrors one at NYU, where the university also resisted allowing graduate research assistants to unionize.
