Vanderbilt graduate students seek campus union

Vanderbilt University graduate students have collected hundreds of union authorization cards from colleagues — a major step in winning official recognition from the school before the end of the year.

Late last year, campus organizers officially associated with the United Auto Workers, which claims more than 400,000 active union members, in hopes of unionizing an estimated 2,200 graduate student workers.

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