Labor & Unionization

Penn State may be among the first institutions to announce it will require COVID-19 vaccination for employees due to Biden administration order requiring vaccination for federal contractors.

Student workers in Hamilton College’s admissions office win bid for collective bargaining. The union is the first of its kind.

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education says threats against scholars’ speech rights increasingly come from students -- and from the political left.

Student workers at Hamilton College seek the right to collective bargaining.

In an example of how universities and faculty unions can collaborate on pandemic planning, Northern Illinois University and its faculty union have agreed to push the remote instruction button when and if the campus test positivity rate hits 8 percent.

University of Iowa said professors could only talk to students about face masks and vaccinations in course-related discussions about health. Faculty advocates said no way.

Colleges and universities increasingly want their students and employees to get the jab. Cases involving vaccines within the University of California and other institutions begin to define the legal terrain.

Professor says he was trying to raise his colleagues’ pay and lost his job in the process.