Teaching assistants

Leaders of the AFT's college unions plan opposition to David Horowitz, cooperation with the NEA, and new organizing efforts.

By a substantial margin, graduate students at the University of Minnesota have voted down a plan to create a union of teaching and research assistants.

Two-thirds of the 4,461 eligible graduate students at Minnesota's Twin Cities and Duluth campuses voted in the elections held last week. The union won the backing of 1,296 while 1,779 voted against it. State officials released the results Monday.

Graduate students have started their walkout at Columbia and Yale Universities.

Thousands of teaching assistants were planning to walk off their jobs at California State U. campuses.

A Yale professor's supporters say he's being dumped for being an anarchist and backing graduate student unionization.

The only private university ever to accept a TA union plans to stop collective bargaining with graduate students.

Graduate students react with a mix of dismay and disregard to NYU's rejection of a TA union.

President faces a crowd of professors and graduate students angry over university's plan to end its TA union.

The only private university to have collective bargaining for graduate students announces a "final" decision to end the practice.

In showdown over TA unions at private universities, NYU grad students walk off the job.