Penn State graduate student workers have overwhelmingly voted in favor of forming a union.
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Coalition counted the 2,080 graduate student votes Thursday in Harrisburg, and 1,882 of them — or about 90% — voted “yes,” according to a social media post by the Coalition of Graduate Employees at Penn State.
Organizers say the goal of the union is to ensure graduate student workers have legal workplace protections and are fairly compensated for their work…