Fifty-seven people were arrested at a sit-in at New York University yesterday as part of an effort to pressure the university to grant its graduate teaching and research assistants union recognition. Graduate students and union supporters were arrested an hour after the Graduate Students Organizing Committee announced that a majority of graduate teaching assistants had signed a petition saying they wanted the group to be their union.
See "57 Teaching Assistants Arrested at N.Y.U. Sit-In for Union Rights", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 27, 2006