Unions/unionization

Hoping to intensify pressure on administrators, U. of Miami students join water-only fast in support of low-wage janitors.

Cary Nelson -- author or editor of 25 books -- has never been at a loss for words. He'll now have a new forum to express his views about academe, as he has been elected as the next president of the American Association of University Professors.

New president of AAUP is arrested in protest to back TA union -- and seeks to have professors join "personal boycott."

On Monday, after weeks of hunger striking and several trips to the hospital, janitors at the University of Miami saw their employer, UNICCO Service Company, and the union that wants to represent them, the Service Employees International Union, reach an agreement that could have them unionizing before fall semester.

Adjuncts at 2 California community colleges push for union separate from full-time professors, reflecting a growing divide nationally.

Some British academics again try to isolate colleges and professors in Israel -- and other academics see the movement as offensive.

AFT vows to return collective bargaining for professors at Quinnipiac -- despite legal edge university has as private institution.

Appeals court ruling revives debate over unions at private colleges -- and sets off new debate over whom the decision favored.

Organizers of graduate students convene to assess the year that was -- and to develop a national message.

Professors say that changes proposed for health insurance would wipe out impact of salary increase being offered.