The University of Pittsburgh’s administration is challenging a petition to hold a graduate student union election. The university is seeking to reverse a Pennsylvania Labor Board decision from February of this year that included graduate students at state universities in the definition of employee. According to a Facebook post made by a Ph.D. student organizer on Wednesday, the administration hired a law firm that is known for union busting. An upcoming labor hearing has been scheduled for both sides to argue their cases.
See "Pitt to challenge grad student union election petition", Janine Faust andJohn Hamilton, Pitt News, March 16, 2018