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Boston University Denies It Would Use AI to Replace Striking Teaching Assistants
Boston University is pushing back against criticisms following a dean’s suggestion that AI tools be used amid a graduate students’...
Boston University Graduate Student Workers Strike
Boston University graduate student workers began striking Monday, calling for better pay, improved health care coverage and guaranteed childcare subsidies...
Higher Ed Workers Seek to Coordinate Nationally
A group called Higher Ed Labor United is trying to overcome the silos that divide unions and keep them from working together against the many threats to colleges and universities.
Florida Law Threatens to Defund, Disband Higher Ed Unions
Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation last year threatening to decertify unions if fewer than 60 percent of bargaining unit members paid dues. Faculty unions are threatened but not yet erased.
Rutgers Unions Sued Over Strike; Case Seeks National Impact
A junior is suing Rutgers University faculty, graduate student, postdoctoral associate and counselor unions that struck in April 2023—plus their...
Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Vote to Unionize
Vote could contribute to undermining of amateur model in college athletics.
Nontenured Academic Workers at Harvard Seek to Unionize
More than 3,000 nontenured or non-tenure-track academic employees at Harvard University have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to seek...
Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track NYU Faculty Members Unionize
Full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members at New York University have unionized, creating the largest bargaining unit of such employees at a...