Labor & Unionization

Summit of dozens of leaders of faculty and staff in higher education develops an ambitious agenda. They want “the common good over profit and prestige.”

Faculty unions at Point Park University and City College of San Francisco have found different means to the same end: preserving full-time faculty jobs threatened during COVID-19.

Undergraduate student workers at Kenyon College are continuing a strike this week and putting more pressure on administrators to voluntarily recognize their union.

Student workers end second week of their work stoppage over a first contract. Key demands include a neutral arbitrator in harassment cases, union coverage for more student workers and a pay increase.

National Labor Relations Board withdraws a proposed rule against student employee unions. The development will likely lead to more unionization efforts on private campuses. Columbia University grad assistants, planning a strike, welcome the news.

Trump-appointed labor board majority potentially limits which private-institution adjuncts can form unions, based on whether or not they have meaningful -- not majority -- involvement in faculty governance bodies.

These four professors aren't giving up their tenured positions at Canisius College without a fight -- in court.

Pacific University allegedly urged a professor to resign, saying he'd be found responsible for sexual misconduct if he didn't.