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1. Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

   Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. students have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. Monday and ... Tuesday’s vote was 2,053 to 67. The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, ... in a statement. The union says it’s still awaiting National Labor Relations Board official ...

   Ryan Quinn - Feb 02, 2023

2. Temple Grad Students Start Strike

   Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union ... university.” The union says it represents nearly 750 of these employees. The Inquirer reported that their ... average annual pay is $19,500, “and the union has sought to raise it to over $32,000, which it said is ...

   Ryan Quinn - Feb 01, 2023

3. Utica proposing to cut a dozen programs, faculty ask why

   union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee. “Specifically, by ... union represents full-time faculty there, librarians and some other employees. “We have experienced such ...

   Ryan Quinn - Feb 02, 2023

4. 3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

   are many different types of designations, unions, etc. To make sure we are all talking about the same ...

   Joshua Kim - Feb 05, 2023

5. Racism alleged on IU's NW campus for firing Black professor

   Legal issues Race Unions/unionization Linfield University Mark McPhail ...

   Ryan Quinn - Jan 30, 2023

6. Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

   to start. The university and the union, UIC United Faculty, each announced the strike’s end and ... a tentative agreement early Monday morning. Union members haven’t yet voted on the new contract, so the ... walkout could resume if members reject the deal. It’s unclear when that vote will be. The union, which ...

   Ryan Quinn - Jan 24, 2023

7. Reflections on ‘Schoolhouse Rock’

   a good thing. But some of us can still sing, “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union …” and ...

   Matt Reed - Jan 31, 2023

8. Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

   start. The university and the union, UIC United Faculty, each announced the strike’s end and a tentative ... agreement early Monday morning. Union members haven’t yet voted on the new contract, so the walkout could ... resume if members reject the deal. It’s unclear when that vote will be. The union, which represents ...

   Ryan Quinn - Jan 23, 2023

9. Teachers Strike at UCLA Lab School

   the union, and we are hopeful that an agreement can be reached soon,” the university said in ...

   Scott Jaschik - Jan 27, 2023

10. Teachers Strike at UCLA Lab School

    the union, and we are hopeful that an agreement can be reached soon,” the university said in ...

    Scott Jaschik - Jan 26, 2023

11. ‘Free’ Online Program at Central State Shutters Amid Controversy

    a controversial free online college program for union members, The Dayton Daily News reported. The public ... works together with unions, including the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of State, County, and ... Municipal Employees, to offer a free college benefit to union employees and children of union employees. ...

    Susan D'Agostino - Jan 20, 2023

12. Professors at University of Illinois at Chicago begin strike

    University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members began striking Tuesday after their union said 12 ... a counter that indicated that they had no interest in resolving our differences,” the union, UIC United ... assessment and including faculty in ongoing conversations about expanded mental health resources,” the union ...

    Ryan Quinn - Jan 18, 2023

13. UAW Accuses UCSD Professors of Giving TAs Poor Grades for Striking

    Union members are accusing three University of California, San Diego, professors of giving ...

    Ryan Quinn - Jan 27, 2023

14. Northwestern Graduate Assistants Form Union

    Graduate assistants at Northwestern University voted last week to form a union, 1,644 to 114. Some ... 2,893 assistants were eligible to vote. The new union is affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio ... toward graduate assistant unions at private institutions; graduate assistants at Yale University also ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Jan 17, 2023

15. U of Illinois Chicago Faculty Will Strike Today

    Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago plan to strike today. The faculty union ... Professors, are expected to appear at a rally for the union. The union and the administration spent 12 hours ... that the union doesn't represent faculty in the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and ...

    Scott Jaschik - Jan 17, 2023

16. How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money?

    employees, union and nonunion, librarian and nonlibrarian staff? And how do total compensation percentages ...

    Joshua Kim - Jan 22, 2023

17. Can the English Major Be Saved?

    a growing number express their collective consciousness through unionization and other forms of activism. ...

    Steven Mintz - Jan 29, 2023

18. Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

    Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, ... NLRB, which has historically flip-flopped on graduate students’ union rights, said in 2016 that teaching ... Yale student workers in eight departments even voted to unionize as part of an unusual “micro-unit” ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Jan 11, 2023

19. Accreditors must do the job Congress assigned them (opinion)

    New England Commission of Higher Education 4 (Atlantic Union College, Burlington College, College of ...

    Jay Urwitz - Jan 25, 2023

20. Debunking U.S. History

    union or advance the cause of freedom, liberty, opportunity and equality. I understand that at a time ...

    Steven Mintz - Jan 25, 2023

21. California universities launch abortion services

    director of student wellness and basic needs, said that the system worked with its unions to ensure ...

    Johanna Alonso - Jan 24, 2023

22. New City College trustees evoke hopes, fears for its future

    support of the college’s faculty union after the seven-member board approved unpopular faculty layoffs ... Federation of Teachers 2121, the faculty union; Susan Solomon, former leader of the San Francisco Unified ... School District teachers’ union; and Vick Chung, former City College student trustee. They were endorsed ...

    Sara Weissman - Jan 12, 2023

23. ‘Fight Like Hell’ and the Search for Its Higher Ed Analogue

    narrative, the book chronicles the union organizing efforts across industries as diverse as online shopping ... value of unions is assumed rather than interrogated. Those looking for a balanced set of arguments ... around the efficacy of unionization should look elsewhere. Early in the book, Kelly mentions the ...

    Joshua Kim - Jan 04, 2023

24. U.S. Judge Upholds W.V. Law on Trans Participation in Sports

    challenged the law with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and a statement of support from the ...

    Doug Lederman - Jan 09, 2023

25. Looking back at the UC graduate worker strike (opinion)

    earlier in the fall in favor of striking. The new agreement falls well short of the union’s goals, leaving ... work done. I was among the UC graduate students who struck in the mid-1990s for the right to unionize ... World History Association. Graduate students Unions/unionization Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via ...

    Laura J. Mitchell - Jan 03, 2023

26. U of California Grad Students Win Big Pay Increases

    compete for top talent. The United Auto Workers represents the graduate students. The union said those ...

    Scott Jaschik - Jan 03, 2023

27. U of California Grad Students Win Big Pay Increases

    compete for top talent. The United Auto Workers represents the graduate students. The union said those ...

    Scott Jaschik - Dec 29, 2022

28. Remaining UC Strikers Reach Tentative Deal but Some Dissent

    United Auto Workers union, representing the workers, says will raise pay for some by 66 percent over the ... improvements to accessibility, workplace protections and transit benefits. Members of the union will vote on ... minimums in Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles reaching $36,500. While numerous union leaders have ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Dec 19, 2022

29. Youngstown State to Welcome Back Retrenched Professors

    found that Youngstown State violated a provision of the faculty union contract on retrenchment ... National Education Association-affiliated faculty union says that faculty layoffs are premature and that ... university's economic condition, and he noted that even the faculty union did not disagree with the need for ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Dec 19, 2022

30. U of California Grad Students Win Big Pay Increases

    compete for top talent. The United Auto Workers represents the graduate students. The union said those ...

    Scott Jaschik - Dec 26, 2022

31. Chico State faces backlash for faculty discipline

    California Faculty Association, Stachura's union, separately issued an apology last week for its role in ... representing Stachura, saying, "We want to make absolutely clear that [the union's executive] board ... a member of the Chico State faculty union's executive board, said in an interview that the union ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Dec 19, 2022

32. Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

    working conditions, put forth a proposal that was closer to the United Auto Workers–affiliated union ... university and the union reached a tentative agreement, ending the strike. “This is a strong, fair, five-year ... of North’s professors are holding classes on Zoom. Classes taught by striking union members have been ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Dec 12, 2022

33. Adjuncts Strike at College of the Canyons

    Hometown Station, a radio station in Santa Clarita, Calif. The part-time faculty members’ union, AFT Local ... union leaders wrote in a notice to adjunct faculty members. “We have been in negotiations with the ... struggle and your contribution matters.” The union is arguing that adjuncts are forced to do free labor and ...

    Sara Weissman - Dec 06, 2022

34. Edward Waters U Shuts Down Faculty Union

    faculty union, The Tributary reported. The university cited “core values and Christian tenets.” The ... Supreme Court has indeed ruled that private and religious college need not recognize unions, but some ... president of the faculty union, said, “De-recognizing the union is a union-busting tactic, so it makes it ...

    Scott Jaschik - Nov 30, 2022

35. New Federal Funds for Clean Energy Workforce Training

    Industrial Assessment Centers at community colleges, trade schools and union training programs. Those funds ... energy transition is by creating training opportunities at community colleges, trade schools and union ...

    Sara Weissman - Dec 06, 2022

36. Edward Waters U Shuts Down Faculty Union

    faculty union, The Tributary reported. The university cited “core values and Christian tenets.” The ... Supreme Court has indeed ruled that private and religious college need not recognize unions, but some ... president of the faculty union, said, “De-recognizing the union is a union-busting tactic, so it makes it ...

    Scott Jaschik - Nov 29, 2022

37. John B. King Jr. tapped to lead SUNY system

    United University Professions, the union that represents SUNY faculty, congratulated King in a statement ... a no-confidence vote of the state teachers union, and if the state’s parents had been able to carry out such ...

    Josh Moody - Dec 06, 2022

38. AI Unleashed

    Lincoln Steffens’s words after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919, fully aware that the phrase is fraught ...

    Steven Mintz - Dec 16, 2022

39. The Power of Narrative

    historian of the Soviet Union and Russia and perhaps the foremost authority on ethnicity policies in the ... to the European Union and NATO. We typically conceive of international conflicts in coldly realist ... II genuinely thought the Soviet Union was embarked on a plan of global conquest and that the loss of ...

    Steven Mintz - Nov 30, 2022

40. New School adjuncts strike for better pay, job security

    negotiations. The part-time faculty union, which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers, says members ... union says. The union’s contract expired earlier this month. Part-time faculty pay at the New School ... 97 percent of participating union members approved in a recent authorization vote. But the New School’s ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Nov 17, 2022

41. New portal aims to define and support 'learn and work ecosystem'

    at an all-time high. It matters to employers, governments, researchers, unions—and of course to the ...

    Doug Lederman - Dec 01, 2022

42. U of Calif. Academic Workers Reach Deal; Strike Continues

    researchers—who have not yet reached their own contract agreements. All four unions are represented by the United ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Nov 30, 2022

43. 48,000 U of California student workers, researchers strike

    Some 98 percent of participating union members approved the strike in an authorization vote, suggesting ... striking workers’ duties. (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters even reportedly told 53,000 unionized ... units are demanding major pay increases, among other changes. The unions’ core demands include a $54,000 ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Nov 15, 2022

44. Faculty member issues dire warning to grad students about jobs

    recognize their union. Graduate assistants at IU-Bloomington went on strike seeking recognition and ...

    Colleen Flaherty - Dec 07, 2022

45. New Trustees Poised to Win at City College of San Francisco

    of the faculty union at the college; Susan Solomon, former San Francisco Unified School District ... teachers’ union leader; and Vick Chung, former CCSF student trustee. They ran as a unified slate with the ... backing of the faculty union, the San Francisco Democratic Party and the San Francisco Labor Council, ...

    Sara Weissman - Nov 16, 2022

46. Brown to Use All Union Labor on Building Projects Over $25M

    Brown University will use all union labor on all construction projects over $25 million for the ... said in a university news release announcing the agreement to use all union labor. “This new agreement ... Island Building and Construction Trades Council represents 16 trade unions and around 10,000 construction ...

    Josh Moody - Nov 15, 2022

47. Calls for Removal of U of Arizona Administrator Grow

    a verbal altercation with Kai Harriott, president of the university’s Black Student Union. Harriott tried ...

    Safia Abdulahi - Nov 23, 2022

48. Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

    Civil Liberties Union, all currently toeing the line in defense of students’ right to know and teachers’ ...

    Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem - Dec 08, 2022

49. Black Students at Grinnell Seek Changes

    supremacist graffiti. The Black Student Union also reports that Black students have been the targets of racial ... to protect themselves. Loyal Terry, co-spokesperson for the Black Student Union and president of the ...

    Scott Jaschik - Nov 11, 2022

50. Answers to questions about a smooth pathway to retirement (opinion)

    a collective bargaining agreement, a union representative may be able to assist you. How can I stay engaged ...

    Elizabeth H. Simmons - Nov 29, 2022

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