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New Frontiers for Neutrality: Academic Unions
Academic unions should refrain from political statements that do not pertain directly to the mission of promoting labor interests, Colleen P. Eren writes.
100-Plus Tufts Lecturers Strike for Better Pay
Some classes at Tufts University were canceled Monday and Tuesday as dozens of full-time lecturers carried out a two-day strike...
NIH, Researchers’ Union Agree to Contract
The National Institutes of Health and a union representing its postbaccalaureate, graduate student and postdoctoral researchers have agreed to a...
Higher Ed Unionization Boomed Under Biden. Will That Change Under Trump?
Graduate student labor ranks have swelled since 2020, and they joined faculty and other university workers in historic strikes. But the coming Republican federal takeover could threaten that growth.
Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including English, history and sociology.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden’s Overtime Expansion
The order means that tens of thousands of college and university staffers are no longer guaranteed either a raise or overtime benefits.
Oregon State University Graduate Student Workers Strike
Oregon State University graduate student workers went on strike this week to push for raises and to keep shorter union...
AAUP President: Election of Trump-Vance ‘Disappointing,’ ‘Higher Ed Must Organize’
The president of the American Association of University Professors called the presidential election results “disappointing” in a news release Thursday...