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After Yearlong Wait, Bates Unionization Vote Fails
After over a year of waiting for the results of a union election that would have brought together non-tenure-track faculty and staff, union organizers heard the outcome. They lost.
Temple Strike Ends After Grad Students Accept Deal
The Temple University graduate student workers’ strike, which lasted over a month and got ugly when the university pulled tuition and health insurance benefits, has come to an end.
Monthlong Temple Strike Enters Possibly Pressing Week
This week looms large, with a possible no-confidence vote for university administrators and public dissent within the graduate student workers’ union.
Lacking Collective Bargaining Rights, but Organizing Anyway
Faculty and staff are forming unions even in states that lack collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. These recent actions are part of a long history.
Temple Demands Strikers Pay for Tuition, Health Care
The university has ended striking graduate student workers’ health coverage and, in what the AFT calls an “unprecedented” move, is demanding they pay tuition, too. Temple says over 80 percent of the local union members aren’t striking.
In Black Professor’s Firing, AAUP Finds ‘Racist Tropes’
Indiana University Northwest fired a Black professor after alleging he said something about killing white people. An AAUP report found “racist tropes of incompetent, angry and physically violent Black men in the language used to justify his dismissal.”
Yale Grad Workers Unionize at Last
Yale teaching and research assistants form a union after decades of organizing and amid a wave of union activity.