Michigan rules that graduate-student research assistants cannot form unions.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has banned graduate-student research assistants in public universities from unionizing following the efforts of 1,200 students to organize a union in April 2011. Snyder said in a statement that research assistants are students and giving them public-employee status and union representation would alter the student–teacher relationship. This is the latest action against US graduate-student unions. In 2004, New York University's union was disbanded under a state labour-board decision. Student representatives from Michigan State University in East Lansing and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor did not respond to interview requests.
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Unions banned. Nature 483, 638 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7391-638b
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