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MAJOR EVENTS TIMELINE # The first graduate assistants' union was formed in 1969 at the University Of Wisconsin # In 1992, after a series of failed attempts to negotiate a contract at University Of California At Berkeley , the Graduate Student Employees held the first strike for recognition # In 1993, the State University Of New York (SUNY) Graduate Student Employee Union was awarded its first contract with the State of New York # In 1995, Yale University 's Graduate Employees And Students Organization (GESO) withheld student grades in order to force recognition of their union. # In 1997, The National Labor Relations Board filed charges against Yale for illegal retaliation against graduate students attempting to unionize. However, the university still does not recognize GESO today. # In April, 2000, graduate students who teach, grade papers and conduct research at New York University (NYU) were granted the legal right to form a union by the NLRB . During litigation over graduate students' efforts to organize at NYU , the NLRB Regional Director ruled that graduate students are employees. Proponents were hopeful that this ruling would open the door for other institutions. # NYU appealed that ruling to the NLRB in Washington. On October 31, 2000, the NLRB affirmed the Regional Director's finding. # In the year 2000, there are unionization recognition battles in Illinois, Michigan, Connecticut, California and other states. # In December of 2001, an NLRB vote is held at Brown University on whether to unionize graduate students in affiliation with the United Auto Workers. Brown appeals the ruling of the NLRB allowing the election, so the votes are never counted. However, graduate students organized to oppose unionzation claim that the UAW was defeated. # On October 24, 2002, Cornell graduate students reject a unionization attempt by the United Autoworkers by a margin of 2 to 1. # At Yale in April, 2003, GESO organizes a non-binding election to be certified by the League of Women Voters. GESO loses the vote and subsequently claims that grad students were intimidated to vote no by the administration. Anti-unionization students challenge these claims as being baseless. # In the fall of 2004, the NLRB announced a complete reversal of it's 2000 decision in the case of NYU in a 3-2 decision siding with Brown in its 2001 appeal. The Republican controlled board stated in their decision that "there is a significant risk, even a strong likelihood, that the collective-bargaining process will be detrimental to the educational process." SEE ALSO
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