Law360, New York (June 22, 2012, 8:08 PM ET) -- The National Labor Relations Board said Friday that it would review the dismissal of two union representation petitions for graduate student assistants, setting the stage for the potential reversal of a Bush-era NLRB decision that said graduate assistants could not unionize.
Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce, Richard Griffin and Sharon Block opted to grant petitions for review from the UAW in two cases that turn on the issue of whether graduate student assistants are employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act. Republican board member Brian Hayes...