Penn takes graduate worker union to court over eligibility dispute
Penn filed a federal declaratory judgment action seeking a ruling that first- and second-year Biomedical Graduate Studies PhD students are not employees in the GET-UP bargaining unit and that GET-UP cannot arbitrate the dispute, according to the complaint and Penn statements. GET-UP says it is enforcing the Feb. CBA and seeks arbitration. The contract runs to June 1, 2028.


