PSU-AAUP
June 05, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Today Portland came out and made it clear that this is a city that will not stand for racist hate! The Portland Stands United Against Hate Rally drew out 1200-1500
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PSU-AAUP
June 04, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
A Trimet Board of Directors meeting to approve its new $1.2 billion budget on May 24 attracted a crowd of activists
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
June 02, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
International education professionals meeting this week for NAFSA’s annual conference confront a difficult political environment.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
June 02, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
We join with others in condemning the wave of intimidation and threats that have swept campuses and the country this year
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NEWSLETTER, SETTLEMENTS
June 02, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
This is not the first time there have been substantive issues with the position placement of AAUP members. The history and the significance of the issues demand that PSU-AAUP formally protest the lack of objectivity and the inadequacy of the desk audits and other HR rocesses that were used to justify decisions that had significant impact on AAUP members.
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NEWSLETTER, SETTLEMENTS
June 01, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Agreeement reached to recapture unspent and unallocated FDC Funds after expiration of FDC grants
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NEWSLETTER, BARGAINING
June 01, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Faculty Equity Workgroup has been working on the salary increase since October 2016
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 31, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Non-tenure-track faculty members at Northwestern University have narrowly voted to form a union represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 73, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 30, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Getting into college and making it through can be hard no matter what your circumstances. But for first-generation students - the first in their families to attend college - the challenges are even greater
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 30, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The state auditor of California last month released a report saying that the California State University system had hired managers at more than twice the rate of other employees
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PSU-AAUP
May 30, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
One of the men who came to the defense of a teenager wearing a hijab on a MAX train Friday won a 2013 poetry competition with a poem condemning prejudices faced by Muslims.
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NEWSLETTER, LEGISLATIVE & POLITICAL, OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 30, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Law makes it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate in payment of wages and to use screen based on previous salary history. The law is awaiting Governor's signature and she is expected to sign.
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PSU-AAUP
May 30, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Racism on the MAX
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NEWSLETTER, OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 26, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
A Better Oregon is hosting Oregon Can't Wait- Rally for Revenue. Tuesday, June 6, Noon to 1 pm. Register by May 31 and receive a complimentary lunch and t-shirt!
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 26, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Faculty members at the University of Oregon will no longer be required to notify campus authorities when students confide in them that they've been sexually assaulted or harassed
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PSU-AAUP
May 26, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
A state higher education board reversed course Thursday, approving big tuition hikes at Portland State University and the University of Oregon that it had rejected earlier in the month.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 26, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Trump administration's budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year would make drastic cuts to education, slashing federal student aid and research funding.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 25, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The National Labor Relations Board has cleared the way for the unionization of student employees of the University of Chicago's libraries, marking the second time this spring that it has declared undergraduate students eligible to bargain collectively.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 25, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Salem-- House lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that would make Oregon award its Electoral College votes only to presidential candidates who win the national popular vote.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
May 25, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
A month long fast by Yale University graduate students advocating for a union ended Monday with mixed success
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