NLRB rules graduate students are employees

Re:NLRB rules graduate students are employees by ori_b on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:04PM (#12348133)

> Graduate students are students. They are paying to be in school. They may be paying for it with money gained from the University but they are still students. Should an undergrad that is on a university scholarship be considered an employee too?

It depends on what they're doing. If they're expected to help with the teaching, instead of doing their own research, they're absolutely employees.

If they're purely doing research, then I agree this shouldn't be covered by the unionization.

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Re:NLRB rules graduate students are employees by daughart on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:12PM (#12348194)

In the life sciences you're never really doing "your own research." The PI has the grant, usually tells you what to do, oversees your results, and puts his/her name in the final spot on the publication. Yet that is "purely doing research."

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