November 8, 2024 News & Commentary Stanford Graduate Workers Union authorizes a strike; Massachusetts voters reject One Fair Wage ballot initiative; UAW Labor for Palestine launches divestment campaign.
March 5, 2024 News & Commentary Corporations back away from DEI, the Poor People’s Campaign launches marches across the country, and more university workers seek to unionize.
December 1, 2023 News & Commentary Emory Ph.D. student workers unionize; Senate fails to advance Biden’s ETA pick; and Starbucks violates labor law in Portland.
March 13, 2023 News & Commentary UAW secures a new agreement with Caterpillar Inc., Duke declares legal opposition to its grad student union, and the Ohio Senate passes a bill relaxing restriction on child labor laws.
Harvard Grad Students Announce Strike Authorization Vote Harvard University’s graduate student union (HGSU-UAW) has announced that they will hold a strike authorization vote beginning October 15. A two-thirds vote of the membership will allow the negotiating committee to call a strike. I thought it might be useful to reiterate two very basic points in the lead-up to the authorization vote and possible […]
