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…
Topic: unions
Professors Oppose Unionization Efforts at University of Washington
242 professors at the University of Washington, or 4% of the faculty, have signed a petition to NOT unionize at the university.
Food Service Workers at Pennsylvania University want to Unionize, Leads to Spike in Meal Plans for Students
College Fix with more on the unionization effort: Kutztown University has five unions covering faculty and professional staff, and Aramark food service workers want to make it six. A successful union drive could mean another…
Larry Summers Stands Up for Labor Unions
Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Department Secretary and current Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, defended the concept of labor unions and blasted the South at a recent panel discussion at the Center…
Look for the Union Label
As labor union leaders high-five each other this weekend over their ancestors’ creation of the Labor Day holiday more than a century ago, we would do well to remember a bit of their history that…
Union Loses Bid to Force Union Representation of College Professors
So the labor unions lost a bid to force college professors to join their ranks and pay them dues? Yes, and it’s quite interesting.
Harvard Graduate Students want to Unionize
Uh, what? Harvard graduate students in the university’s department of arts and sciences want to form a union. Why? Campus Reform said: “Graduate students at Harvard University are attempting to unionize, according to a report from The…
Unions cap Charter School Growth
Charter school growth has exploded over the last two decades and so have the waiting lists to get in them. “Today there are charter school laws in 42 states and the District of Columbia,” Nina…

Campbell Brown at AEI: Public School Protection Racket
“What do you call Democrats with kids?” goes a joke of fairly recent vintage. “Republicans,” is the punch line. Former CNN reporter Campbell Brown may not have reached that point yet but she has become…