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Graduate student organizers at Yale University have withdrawn their petition to unionize with Unite Here. The organizing drive began last year, and included eight different departments at the University. In a statement, a union representative said that the NLRB has become increasingly hostile towards unions under the Trump administration, leading them to withdraw the petition. In December, the NLRB ruled against what is dubbed “micro-unit organizing”, where unions organize more narrowly-defined groups of workers employed by a given employer at the same workplace. Graduate students at other campuses across the country have expressed similar concerns about the increasing hostility towards union interests by the labor board.