Columbia Grad Students Protest For Collective Bargaining

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NY — Columbia graduate students will stage a protest Thursday at the university's Low Memorial Library calling on the university administration to begin a collective bargaining process with the students' newly-formed union.

The protest will come two days after the National Labor Relations Board ruled to uphold the results of a December election where teaching and graduate assistants at the university voted in favor of forming a union. Graduate students voted 1602 in favor to 623 apposed to join the newly-created Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers Union.

Students and their supporters plan to wrap Low Library in more than 32,000 signatures Thursday.

This report will be updated after the protest.

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