LABOR UNION

ANALYSIS: How the rise of unionization on campus impacts undergraduate students

Graduate student worker unions rose in popularity and power in the last decade, as unions staged protests and held …

By Peter Cordi
Mar 9, 2022

COVID drives student workers' demands for university to recognize their union

Graduate students at Clark University have requested that the university voluntarily recognize them as an official …

By Alexa Schwerha
Feb 23, 2022

SEIU-backed college staff ends strike empty-handed

Approximately 120 staff members conducted a four-day strike against California College of Arts.

By Wyatt Eichholz '24 and Alexa Schwerha
Feb 15, 2022

Student workers union made new COVID demands as classmates returned to campus

COGS/UE Local 896 union, which represents graduate student workers at the University of Iowa, demanded an 'e-pivot'…

By Leana Dippie '23
Feb 8, 2022

Campus workers union demands return to remote learning, adoption of stricter COVID guidelines

United Campus Workers of Arizona published an open letter demanding Arizona State University and University of Ariz…

By Alexa Schwerha
Jan 12, 2022

Striking workers union, Columbia University reach tentative agreement on $140 million demand

PhD student workers at Columbia University voted to end a 10-week strike that centered around pay and labor conditi…

By Alexa Schwerha
Jan 11, 2022

‘#CUonStrike’: Columbia student workers on strike for $140 million in school funds

Following a large picketing protest on December 8, the University Provost stated in an email that 'several injuries…

By Abigail Streetman '23 and Alexa Schwerha
Dec 10, 2021

WATCH: California college profs block traffic over union negotiation

Professors and students at California College of the Arts blocked traffic to push back against job cuts.

By Ben Zeisloft
Dec 21, 2020

UVA employees form anti-racism union

UVA Health employees have begun to unionize under an organization that campaigns for "anti-racism."

By Ben Zeisloft
Dec 11, 2020

University of Illinois grad students declare 'sanctuary union'

According to the resolution, the designation means that faculty members will engage in public activism to oppose im…

By Blair Nelson
Aug 29, 2018

Student workers union gets less than it bargained for from UC

The University of California Student Workers Union has reached a contract agreement with the UC system, but the uni…

By Adam Sabes
Aug 28, 2018

Mayim Bialik backs out of UCLA commencement to support strikers

Mayim Bialik has withdrawn as the "distinguished alumna speaker" at UCLA's commencement in order to express support…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Jun 4, 2018

Grad students urge STEM workers to boycott US military

The graduate student employee union at the University of Illinois is urging STEM workers to "refuse employment" in …

By Adam Sabes
May 9, 2018

VIDEO: Protesters try to kick Campus Reform out of protest

Pro-union demonstrators protesting a speech by Mark Mix took violent objection to Campus Reform's attempts to learn…

By Cabot Phillips
Mar 1, 2018

Students seek title of 'most unionized campus in the country'

A small, independent labor union is looking to make Grinnell College "the most unionized campus in the country" by …

By Kyle Perisic
Sep 28, 2017

Labor activists hold conference to 'strengthen the resistance'

According to attendees and organizers, workshops addressed topics such as white supremacy, illegal immigration, opp…

By Neetu Arnold
Jul 31, 2017

Duke lecturer still working after arrest for assaulting cop

Rann Bar-On was arrested on May 20 after allegedly striking a police officer with a flag pole when the officer trie…

By Justin Caruso
Jun 14, 2017