After the university administration did not acquiesce to its demands met last month, unionized workers at Rutgers University began voting on whether to authorize a labor strike. According to the Daily Targum, voting began on…
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Yale student workers vote to unionize
Labor unions, which saw plummeting membership trends in recent years, are seeing a resurgence on college and university campuses in the form of graduate and professional student workers. The latest university to join the unionization…
SEIU cafeteria workers threaten a strike in LA
Teachers’ union strikes took place last year as school districts were reopening to in-person classes, and it looks like a Los Angeles-area union of school workers are threatening to strike early in the new year….
Biden’s labor board lays groundwork for unionization of NCAA athletes
Under the Biden administration, there has been a re-emergence of labor strikes and settlement of labor disputes in favor of labor unions. The most recent example is an announcement by the National Labor Relations Board…
Graduate researchers petition to form union in California
While union membership is on the decline nationwide, and in particularly in the private sector, student workers are clamoring for union dues and representation in higher education. At least 10,000 graduate student researchers in the…
UC-Santa Cruz fires striking teaching assistants
The University of California-Santa Cruz fired some of its graduate students after they refused to post grades, which was a part of a labor strike to receive higher cost-of-living adjustments in their stipends.
Hourly Employees at University of Chicago can Hold a Union Election, Announced NLRB
Undergraduate hourly workers at the University of Chicago library can hold a union election, said the NLRB.
Harvard Graduates to Get Hearing on Unionization Status
From Campus Reform: The majority of votes of Harvard University students voted against forming a union for teaching and research assistants, but the number of contested ballots is greater than the margin of victory. The…
Free Online College Tuition for Union Members at a Ohio Community College
From Inside Higher Ed: Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville, Ohio, is opening up its online courses to the more than 1.6 million members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their…
Look for the Union Label
Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing of bad teachers, but the study itself is more of a hypothetical defense against very…
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