Bloomberg Law: NLRB Says Graduate Students Can Unionize (Audio)

(Bloomberg) -- Joseph Ambash, a managing partner at Fisher Phillips, and Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel at the National Employment Law Project, discuss a National Labor Relations Board decision, which has ruled that graduate students who teach at private universities should be categorized as employees with full rights to join unions. The decision, which was brought by a group of Columbia University students, could raise salary costs and pose new challenges for university administrators not accustomed to graduate students collective bargaining. The ruling does not apply to the public university system, where a small portion of graduate students have been unionized for decades. They speak with Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."