In the wake of the global pandemic, many U.S. working people are organizing for a multiracial democracy in which they have more power on the job and in their communities. Their efforts build, in part, on a newfound public appreciation for labor unions that developed out of a celebration of essential workers and subsequent dismay […]
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UCW Arizona believes that all workers must be paid thriving wages in Arizona. Across our communities, we have seen how the housing market, gas prices, and food expenses have increased. Inflation is over 10% in Arizona, outpacing the national average, and workers’ wages are not increasing to meet the costs of living in the area. Rents
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On November 28, 2022 the Binghamton University chapter of the Graduate Student Employee Union announced the commencement of its living wage campaign. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator, the living wage for one adult with no children in Broome County is $34,574 per year. In comparison, Binghamton University graduate and teaching assistants
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“As University of California researchers return to work, union organizers say this is just the beginning of a nationwide push for better working conditions.” “As it stands, academia is now home to some of the largest growth in unionization across all sectors of the US economy. Nearly 150 unions, representing more than 600,000 academic workers,
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University of Washington Libraries, Gallagher Law Library, and UW Press workers have authorized a strike! The UW Libraries Union has been in contract negotiations for a first collective bargaining agreement for over a year. UW Libraries and Press workers demand that the University stop delaying negotiations, stop degrading workplace protections, stop proposing a two-tiered system
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Workers in Maryland’s public institutions of higher education are organizing for living wages and the passage of legislation allowing them to engage in collective bargaining. We need your support! Collective bargaining is a fundamental right of all workers, but faculty and students in Maryland state institutions of higher education are denied this right under current
“Free or low-cost college used to be the norm, but now, as austerity measures saddle students with debt and create precarious conditions for many academic workers, American politicians create policy that treats higher education as a luxury. And today, college remains a weapon in the culture wars, with attacks on affirmative action, diversity, equity and
Thursday, December 15, 2022; 4:30pm PT/ 5:30pm MT/ 6:30pm CT/ 7:30pm ET A lot has happened – and is still happening! – with higher ed labor in 2022. Join us for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast celebration of 2022 organizing and action across the US and internationally, and to prepare for the long fight ahead. Union members with
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Sign this open letter to call on the University of Michigan Board of Regents to ensure that Academic Human Resources (AHR) agrees to transparent and inclusive bargaining with the Graduate Employees’ Organization, a labor union representing 2,300 graduate workers at U-M. There is no time to waste. Graduate workers face a crisis of affordability at
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If you’re a worker in the NYC area, sign this pledge not to break any NYC-area higher ed strikes (in addition to part-time faculty at The New School, workers at Rutgers, Fordham, Pratt, and CUNY are all currently in negotiations). Recently, administration at The New School, whose part-time faculty are in the third week of
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