Resident Advisers at George Washington U. Attempt to Open a New Union Front

Resident advisers at George Washington University are seeking the National Labor Relations Board’s permission to unionize, a development that would open a new front in the campaign to organize private colleges’ academic workers. The effort’s leaders are asking the NLRB to let the private university’s nearly 110 resident advisers vote on forming a collective-bargaining unit affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, which already represents adjuncts at George Washington and other colleges in this city.