Who is eligible to participate in a proposed GET-UP bargaining unit - and who isn't -- has been decided by the National Labor Relations Board in a November 21, 2002 ruling by its Regional Director

The following is the relevant excerpt from the regional director's decision on who is eligible to vote:

Included: All graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. or Masters degree programs who are employed by the Employer as full-time or regular-part-time Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Instructors, Lecturers, and Graders, in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Social Work, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Graduate School of Fine Arts, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Nursing, the Biomedical Graduate Studies program, and doctoral students in the Wharton School; and Research Assistants and Research Fellows in the non-science graduate groups in the School of Arts and Science (Ancient History, Anthropology, Art and Archaeology in the Mediterranean World, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Criminology, Demography, Economics, English, Folklore and Folklife, Germanic Languages and Literature, History, History of Art, History and Sociology of Science, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Sociology, and South Asia Regional Studies), the School of Social Work, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Graduate School of Fine Arts, the Graduate School of Education, and the School of Nursing.

Excluded: All other employees; graduate students in the School of Medicine (other than students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program), School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, Wharton School (except for doctoral students serving as Teaching Assistants), and the School of Law; Research Assistants and Research Fellows in the Natural Science graduate groups in the School of Arts and Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy), the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Biomedical Graduate Studies program; hourly-paid graders, Vice-Provost for University Life staff members; other hourly employees; adjunct, visiting and regular faculty members; undergraduate students; post-doctoral fellows; guards; and supervisors as defined in the Act.