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The Harvard Undergraduate Council has called for Harvard representatives to withdraw an appeal of the NLRB decision to invalidate the graduate student union’s certification election. Following a November 2016 unionization election for the Harvard Graduate Student Union, representatives of the union argued that the University failed to generate an adequate voter list and the NLRB mandated a re-vote. University representatives have maintained that the union elections fully met all requirements for necessary laboratory conditions and that the results of the election were legitimate and representative of the wishes of the student body. However, the college’s undergraduate student government recently overwhelmingly voted in favor of holding a re-vote, passing legislation urging University President Drew G. Faust to drop the appeal and allow for the representation of hundreds of students whose votes were not previously sought in a new election.