Perspectives Yale student workers vote to unionize Spencer Irvine January 19, 2023 Labor unions, which saw plummeting membership trends in recent years, are seeing a resurgence on college and university campuses in…
Perspectives Biden’s labor board lays groundwork for unionization of NCAA athletes Spencer Irvine December 23, 2022 Under the Biden administration, there has been a re-emergence of labor strikes and settlement of labor disputes in favor of…
Faculty Lounge Graduate Students Make Strategic Retreat Malcolm A. Kline February 15, 2018 Can it be that the Resistance, at least on the academic side, is realizing that President Trump may serve at least one full term?
Faculty Lounge Second Vote Required for Harvard Students who want to Unionize Accuracy in Academia December 20, 2017 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) told Harvard graduate students that they must have another round of voting to go forward in their unionization plans.
Faculty Lounge Boston College vs. Labor Board on Unionization of Students Accuracy in Academia September 8, 2017 Boston College, a Catholic college, is challenging the National Labor Relations Board (known as NLRB) over student unionization efforts at…
Faculty Lounge Hourly Employees at University of Chicago can Hold a Union Election, Announced NLRB Accuracy in Academia May 31, 2017 Undergraduate hourly workers at the University of Chicago library can hold a union election, said the NLRB.
Faculty Lounge Yale University Unhappy with Unionization Vote and Methods Spencer Irvine March 5, 2017 From Campus Reform: According to Inside Higher Ed, teaching assistants in the East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Geology and Geophysics,…
Faculty Lounge Memo: College Football Players are Employees Spencer Irvine February 8, 2017 From Campus Reform: The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel said this week that football players at private universities are…
Faculty Lounge Harvard Graduates to Get Hearing on Unionization Status Spencer Irvine January 2, 2017 From Campus Reform: The majority of votes of Harvard University students voted against forming a union for teaching and research…
Faculty Lounge Northwestern Football Players Can’t be Banned from Using Social Media Spencer Irvine October 16, 2016 After a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Northwestern University’s football players cannot be banned from using…
Faculty Lounge Mixed Signals from National Labor Relations Board on Unionizing Professors at Religious Colleges Spencer Irvine February 11, 2016 Yes to one, but no to another? Sounds very ambiguous. Photo by cromely
Perspectives New Deal with a Stacked Deck Malcolm A. Kline September 22, 2015 A high school teacher who has worked in Oregon and Manhattan is determined to pass on his history of the…
