Graduate students unionizing is the norm in public universities. As the article points out, it's only recently (2016) that the NLRB ruled that graduate students

Graduate students unionizing is the norm in public universities. As the article points out, it's only recently (2016) that the NLRB ruled that graduate students at private universities are to be considered employees, which opened the door for students to vote whether they wanted to unionize, prior to this they had no legal standing to even consider unionization. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unionization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio...