Ninety-one percent of the graduate and professional student workers who participated in Monday's election voted to form a union.
The UAW Members United slate won three regional director positions and could eventually win the other four top officer positions it contested, including the presidency.
The university’s statement affirms it will honor Local 33’s petition for an official election via secret ballot while maintaining a commitment to academic supervisors’ freedom to express opinions on unionization.
The milestone comes some six months after a failed high-profile union bid by Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who sought to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
The investors calling for Amazon to cease pushing back on the unionization efforts collectively hold more than $20 billion worth of the company's shares.
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