Labor & Unionization

Todd Wolfson is pushing the century-old American Association of University Professors to fight higher ed’s detractors and “organize every campus.” But critics say the venerable organization is straying from its roots.

The university’s contingent teachers unionized in the spring. Before they sign their first agreement, they want administrators to stop limiting their contract renewals.

The student employees won their first union contract after months of bargaining and then a lengthy walkout. But the agreement, which only lasts three years, doesn’t achieve some major demands.

From a historic strike to pro-Palestine protests and an athletic director’s resignation, the first African American president of one the nation’s largest universities faced controversy atop controversy over the past two years.

The number of unionized grad-student workers more than doubled in just over a decade, according to a new report on higher education labor. Most of the growth came at private institutions, where faculty unionization has also spiked.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is representing, for free, Jewish academics who don’t want to support a pro-BDS labor organization. But the foundation is trying to score broader wins.