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Right to Gender-Neutral Spaces
Graduate student workers in the U. California System say they've agreed on contract language establishing gender-neutral bathrooms and lactation stations as rights.
Union Target: For-Profits
Could a contract for some Kaplan faculty in New York be a precedent?
Jersey Impasse
Faculty at Bergen Community College vote no confidence in president, citing loss of key meetings, changes in planned tenure rules and a disputed interpretation of a "Game of Thrones" quote.
Opinion
Not New, Not Surprising
Higher ed leaders need to stop the "sky is falling" rhetoric about a football players' union, writes Daniel J. Julius. The athletes follow a long line of academic employees who turn to collective bargaining when real economic and non-economic needs are ignored.
Absent From the Agenda
New AGB survey data suggest that boards aren't paying much attention to adjunct employment issues.
(Not So) Overnight Success
Union leaders talk about achievements for adjuncts through collective bargaining, and reflect on why the movement took so long to take off.
Time for a Union?
Faculty at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are divided over a unionization drive, and watching stalled negotiations at university's Chicago campus.
When 'Full Funding' Isn't Full
Push by grad students at UT Austin shows how difficult it can be to define what doctoral support is needed -- and how to get it.