We learned of the promulgation of a policy for grader support that was just established in SPH. As it was in SBA, it is a mandatory subject of bargaining in SPH. A Demand to Bargain has been issued.
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The Wright State University AAUP chapter, the faculty union representing full-time faculty at WSU, has adopted an amendment
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As protests unfolded at universities across the Northeast, graduate students seeking union recognition face an NLRB that might no longer be sympathetic to their cause.
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New grievance references created by the VP of Grievances and Academic Freedom.
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this corrects and provides additional recommendations from the email sent on October 19
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The opt out period is over, and we have record participation
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On Tuesday November 7, 2017, at 12:45 a.m.
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Republicans in Congress released their proposed overhaul of the nation's tax laws on Thursday
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Republican tax plan would cut off key source of borrowing and impose new taxes on wealthy institutions. Some see historic shift in view of elite universities from a public good worthy of sheltering from taxes to a source of funds for government.
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Since a graphic anti-abortion showcase towered two stories high and drew spirited protests in Portland State University's Park Blocks
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Oregon's senior senator—himself a Duck—demands answers from U of O President Michael Schill.
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In July, it became the first American choir to compete in the prestigious Bali International Choir festival
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Neither Penn State nor Johns Hopkins’s Peabody Institute enjoyed particularly strong shared governance within the last decade. Recent reform efforts hold promise.
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A rotating group of around 40 or 50 students at Reed College have been camped out in an administration building
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"Yes" vote provides funds that are currently budgeted to pay for health care for low-income individuals and families and individuals with disabilities
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November 1 was the first session of Interest based bargaining over the advising redesign implementation
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Workers at New Seasons Market are organizing a union
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We are aware of faculty members that are ready to hire post-docs once a program is put in place
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We are receiving reports from faculty who are told they will have to double and triple up in East Hall and the Stratford. The CBA protects you on this matter.
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Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.
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