September 21, 2016

Graduate (and Other) Student Employee Bargaining:  Columbia University – What Does it Mean and Where Do We Go From Here?

On August 23, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board held that any students who perform services in connection with their education are employees, eligible to organize and bargain. This holding, overturning the Board’s 2004 decision in Brown University, has significant implications for private colleges and universities.

Two NACUA members who have extensive experience with graduate student bargaining will share their insights on:

  • The NLRB decision and its likely impacts
  • How colleges and universities can prepare now for increased union activity in the future
  • How bargaining with graduate students differs from other types of collective bargaining

This webinar will be of interest to general counsel and attorneys involved in union negotiations, vice presidents and deans of graduate schools, graduate school administrators, human resources and labor relations personnel as well as others who are or could be involved with institutional responses to organizing or bargaining with graduate or undergraduate student employees. 

 

Program Schedule

12:00 P.M. ET

I. Welcome, Introduction of Speakers, & Agenda

II. Overview of Private Sector Graduate Student Unionization

III. The Columbia Decision and its implications

IV. Experiences at Other Public and Private Institutions 

V. Question & Answer Break

VI. What Should Institutions be Doing Right Now 

VII. Negotiating with Graduate Students

VIII. Question & Answer Break

2:00 P.M. ET

VIII. Final Takeaways & Concluding Remarks

Speakers

Joseph Ambash

Joseph Ambash - Fisher Phillips

Joseph W. Ambash Managing Partner of the Boston office of FisherPhillips, concentrates his practice in the area of labor and employment law. A long-time NACUA member and ...  

Walter Hunter

Walter Hunter

Walter C. Hunter Hunter is a Shareholder at Littler Mendelson, PC, where he practices labor and employment law and chairs the Firm's higher education practice group. He came to Littler Mendelson from ...

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