The Senate has voted to advance the nominations of current NLRB members Marvin Kaplan and Lauren McFerran to additional terms. If confirmed, this still leaves one unfilled Democratic seat on the board. One bright-line rule to...
Read MoreGraduate student unions at both Harvard and Brown reached tentative contract agreements this month. This comes after more than a year of bargaining, in both cases. It also further codifies the role of graduate student worker as...
Read MoreAfter an invitation to interested parties to file briefs on whether or not the board should assert jurisdiction over charter schools “as a class” back in February, the NLRB ruled on March 25th that a New York charter school fell...
Read MoreFifty-four graduate assistants received an unwelcome letter in the last week of February from University of California, Santa Cruz, notifying them they will no longer have teaching appointments for the spring semester. The grad...
Read MoreBack in 2012, adjunct professors at Duquesne University (a Catholic institution) voted to join the Steelworkers Union. Since then, the university has refused to bargain based on its status as a religious institution, which...
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