CHICAGO — Graduate students at the University of Chicago voted overwhelmingly to unionize following a ballot count held Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board, the latest such vote in a swell of organizing at universities across the country.
The U of C graduate students’ vote comes on the heels of a union victory in January at Northwestern University, where graduate students are also represented by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. In recent months, graduate students at the University of Southern California and Yale also have voted to unionize.
U of C graduate students voted 1,696 to 155 to unionize, according to NLRB records.
