Graduate students at the University of Chicago became one of twelve universities to vote in a graduate students union after an election was held earlier this week. Despite considerable pressure from the administration to keep the union out, the NLRB election resulted in overwhelming support for the union, with more than eleven hundred votes in favor and less than 500 opposition votes. In an email to all graduate students on October 15, the university’s executive vice provost David Nireneberg warned students about potential problems that could arise following a student union, including issues with research grants and funding for some academic programs.
See "Graduate students at the University of Chicago become the latest to unionize", Esha Indani, The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 24, 2017