Dive Brief:

• New York University will allow most of its graduate-student employees to vote on forming a union.
• About 1200 graduate students are scheduled to vote next month on whether to join the United Auto Workers.
• In order to come to an agreement, one big sticking point was resolved in the schools' favor: Some research assistants in the hard sciences will be excluded from union representation. 

Dive Insight:

While the university extracted some concessions, overall this looks to be a big win for the labor movement and its push to get into more universities. For a look at where other union organizing efforts stand in academia, see last month's round-up.