Labor & Unionization

National Labor Relations Board withdraws a proposed rule against student employee unions. The development will likely lead to more unionization efforts on private campuses. Columbia University grad assistants, planning a strike, welcome the news.

Trump-appointed labor board majority potentially limits which private-institution adjuncts can form unions, based on whether or not they have meaningful -- not majority -- involvement in faculty governance bodies.

These four professors aren't giving up their tenured positions at Canisius College without a fight -- in court.

Pacific University allegedly urged a professor to resign, saying he'd be found responsible for sexual misconduct if he didn't.

University of Memphis raised its minimum wage for staff last month to $15 per hour. Workers say the move was sorely needed.

It's a jungle out there for faculty members this legislative session, with state bills banning certain courses and content and, in Iowa, seeking to survey faculty members on their political beliefs.

Collin College is again accused of violating a faculty member's free speech rights -- this time by pushing someone out.

Citing COVID-19, Kansas's state governing board makes it much easier for institutions to suspend or terminate even tenured faculty members.