Cornell's Teaching Assistants Reject Unionization

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

The United Auto Workers suffered a landslide defeat last month in its attempt to unionize graduate assistants at Cornell University, dealing a setback to efforts to organize at private universities.

By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Cornell students voted against forming a union that would have represented about 2,300 teaching and research assistants...

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