NYU’s asks the Board to set aside that election based on unfounded speculation about the adverse impact to educational policy that will allegedly result from granting Assistants collective bargaining rights, and to disregard the clear mandate of the National Labor Relations Act to accord bargaining rights to individuals who are employees. Petitioner UAW urges the Board to affirm the Region 2 Decision and Direction of Election ("Decision"), and to afford the Assistants their democratic right to vote for union representation.