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AFL-CIO, UAW File Complaint Against U.S. for Graduate Workers’ Freedom to Form Union

by Tula Connell, Feb 26, 2007

The AFL-CIO and the UAW today filed a complaint against the U.S. government with the International Labor Organization, an agency of the United Nations, alleging that a 2004 decision by the Bush-dominated National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the Brown University case violates workers’ rights to the freedom of association.

The complaint alleges that by denying teaching assistants and research assistants at private universities the right to join unions and engage in collective bargaining, the NLRB has violated workers’ rights under internationally recognized core labor standards. 

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