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NYU's Poison Ivy Itch
Ross, Andrew | October 3, 2005 issue

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Focuses on a protest in support of the graduate teaching assistant union (GSOC-UAW) in front of New York University's (NYU) Bobst Library after NYU's use of an antilabor ruling by U.S. President George W. Bush's NLRB to deep-six the union. Participation of AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, UNITE HERE president Bruce Raynor, UAW secretary-treasurer Elizabeth Bunn and high-profile New York City and state politicians; Denial of some of NYU's requests for special dispensations by the New York City Council as retaliation.

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DEMONSTRATIONS; LABOR unions; GRADUATE students; GRADUATE teaching assistants; SWEENEY, John; RAYNOR, Bruce; NEW York University (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.)
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