In the midst of good news, there are too often "sigh" moments

The good news: NYU and the UAW have agreed to allow graduate teaching assistants to hold a union election. 

The "sigh" moments come in the first and last clauses here: 

Outside the South, graduate student unions are common in public higher education (where collective bargaining rights are determined at the state level), but have been the source of years of organizing and legal struggles in private higher education.