{"id":180290,"date":"2016-02-29T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadmin.news-harvard.go-vip.net\/gazette\/gazette\/?p=180290"},"modified":"2019-02-28T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:49:29","slug":"harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"403\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/032513_features_sm_033_605.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">Harvard joined Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University in filing a brief urging the National Labor Relations Board to uphold existing rulings that protect the academic relationship between graduate students and the private universities that they attend.<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">File photo by Stephanie Mitchell\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tCampus &amp; Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tHarvard joins in filing NLRB brief\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2016-02-29\">\n\t\t\tFebruary 29, 2016\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t3 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tUniversity, other private colleges seek to maintain prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>Harvard University is joining peer institutions in filing a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/amicus_brief_-_case_02-rc-143012_0.pdf?m=1456777061\">brief<\/a> today with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/\">National Labor Relations Board<\/a> (NLRB) urging it to uphold existing rulings that protect the academic relationship between graduate students and the private universities that they attend.<\/p>\n<p>The NLRB is considering two cases concerning whether graduate students at private universities should be considered employees for purposes of forming a labor union. In reviewing this issue, the board solicited comment from interested parties. Currently, the board does not consider graduate students at private universities to be employees. Rulings on the pending cases could reverse earlier decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard joined Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University in filing this brief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions in these cases would affect graduate students at Harvard and at every private university,\u201d said Michael D. Smith, Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \u201cWe believe that graduate students join a university as students, not as employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xiao-Li Meng, Ph.D. \u201990, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said, \u201cIt is a part of GSAS\u2019s mission to help our students complete a rigorous academic program and prepare for success in their future careers. We work very closely with the Graduate Student Council and with GSAS students in general to ensure effective support to their varied experiences in 56 different departments and programs across nine Harvard schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Key points in the brief include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing a relationship that is fundamentally about education to one that is about employment would be damaging and disruptive to graduate education and the graduate student experience.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing has changed to warrant reversing earlier decisions that graduate students are students, not employees \u2014 neither law, circumstances, nor facts.<\/li>\n<li>Reversing earlier decisions \u201cwould significantly damage private-sector graduate education in this country and will represent an inappropriate intrusion into long-protected areas of academic freedom and autonomy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Citing the experience of New York University: \u201cThe only record evidence of private-sector experience bargaining with graduate assistants since the [earlier] 2004 &#8230; decision demonstrates the costly and disruptive effect such bargaining has on graduate education.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBoth collective bargaining and arbitration are, by their very nature, adversarial. They clearly have the potential to transform the collaborative model of graduate education to one of conflict and tension.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cGraduate students study in 56 separate and unique programs across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. At GSAS, we partner with them and provide individualized support that addresses the different circumstances they encounter, both academically and personally,\u201d said Allen Aloise, Ph.D. \u201904, dean for administration and finance at GSAS. \u201cWe are dedicated to helping our students complete their graduate studies and succeed beyond them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 4,000 students in GSAS. Ph.D. students there benefit from a financial aid package guaranteed for five years that can total more than $250,000 per student and includes full tuition support, stipends, completely subsidized health insurance, mass transit subsidies, support for new parents, and other benefits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the brief <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/amicus_brief_-_case_02-rc-143012_0.pdf?m=1456777061\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard joins other private universities in legal brief asking NLRB to keep prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105622744,"featured_media":180291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":0,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"","document_color_palette":"crimson","author":"","affiliation":"","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[3645,15359,21076,23794,25107,36285],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-180290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-allen-aloise","tag-harvard","tag-labor-union","tag-michael-d-smith","tag-national-labor-relations-board","tag-xiao-li-meng"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief &#8212; Harvard Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Harvard joins other private universities in legal brief asking NLRB to keep prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief &#8212; Harvard Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harvard joins other private universities in legal brief asking NLRB to keep prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Harvard Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-02-29T20:42:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-02-28T16:49:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/032513_features_sm_033_605.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"605\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"403\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"harvardgazette\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"harvardgazette\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/#\/schema\/person\/78d028cf624923e92682268709ffbc4b\"},\"headline\":\"Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-02-29T20:42:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-02-28T16:49:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/\"},\"wordCount\":564,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/02\/harvard-joins-in-filing-nlrb-brief\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/032513_features_sm_033_605.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Allen Aloise\",\"Harvard\",\"labor union\",\"Michael D. 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In reviewing this issue, the board solicited comment from interested parties. Currently, the board does not consider graduate students at private universities to be employees. Rulings on the pending cases could reverse earlier decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard joined Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University in filing this brief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions in these cases would affect graduate students at Harvard and at every private university,\u201d said Michael D. 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We work very closely with the Graduate Student Council and with GSAS students in general to ensure effective support to their varied experiences in 56 different departments and programs across nine Harvard schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Key points in the brief include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing a relationship that is fundamentally about education to one that is about employment would be damaging and disruptive to graduate education and the graduate student experience.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing has changed to warrant reversing earlier decisions that graduate students are students, not employees \u2014 neither law, circumstances, nor facts.<\/li>\n<li>Reversing earlier decisions \u201cwould significantly damage private-sector graduate education in this country and will represent an inappropriate intrusion into long-protected areas of academic freedom and autonomy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Citing the experience of New York University: \u201cThe only record evidence of private-sector experience bargaining with graduate assistants since the [earlier] 2004 ... decision demonstrates the costly and disruptive effect such bargaining has on graduate education.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBoth collective bargaining and arbitration are, by their very nature, adversarial. 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