Fordham grad students win union election

Graduate student workers at Fordham University have won their union election in a landslide, with 229 voting in favor and just 15 against.

The vote marked the end of over two years of organizing, though one member of the organizing committee, Ciarán Coyle, said organizing actually began in earnest in 2015. That last wave progressed to the point of passing out cards, but efforts disbanded following a proposed rule by the National Labor Relations Board that would have found that paid student researchers and teaching assistants at private universities were not employees and consequently did not have a right to bargain collectively.