Another Contested Election

doi:10.1126/science.290.5495.1275c

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The results are finally in--almost--on a bid by New York University grad students to join the United Auto Workers. Last week, following a National Labor Relations Board ruling that the graduate assistants are "employees" (Science, 10 November, p. 1069), officials finally counted ballots from a union vote held last spring. The tally in favor of organizing was 597 to 418, but not included were an additional 295 ballots cast by grad students--most of them in business and science. The union claimed they were ineligible. The parties this week agreed to count 156 of the votes--not enough to change the outcome. NYU now must make a choice: Negotiate with the union, or risk getting hauled to court by the labor board. So far, says NYU spokesperson John Becker, "no decision has been made."