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May 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Both houses of Mexico’s legislature passed a domestic workers’ rights bill, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to sign into law. The bill extends Mexico’s minimum wages and benefits — including social security, healthcare, and maternity leave — to the country’s domestic workers. The bill also bans children younger than 15 from engaging […]

April 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The March jobs report revealed that the U.S. added 196,000 jobs last month, exceeding forecasts and demonstrating recovery from February’s slowdown. The numbers in Friday’s monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate strong, sustainable economic growth. Unemployment remains at 3.8%. The New York Times explains that wage gains – March 2019’s hourly wages […]

November 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

After years of refusing to recognize its graduate student union in contravention of federal labor law, Columbia University has finally agreed to bargain with the union in the coming months, its president and provost announced Monday afternoon. Columbia University spent the past two years resisting a landmark NLRB decision from 2016 holding that its graduate assistants […]

November 11, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Graduate student workers at Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE), an AFT affiliate. Following an agreement reached between the union and the university, the election was overseen by the American Arbitration Association, rather than the NLRB. Student workers at Georgetown join an increasing number of graduate student […]

August 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois vetoed a bill that would have allowed graduate research assistants at the state’s public universities to join labor unions. Currently, graduate teaching assistants — but not research assistants — at the University of Illinois are unionized with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliate. […]

Today’s News & Commentary — August 29, 2018

Aug 29, 2018 Jenny Braun

The prison strike enters day nine, as the estimated 900,000 incarcerated laborers (out of a population of 2.4 million) demand “an immediate end to prison slavery.” Sarah Holder of City Lab, quoting ACLU National Prison Project’s David Fathi, breaks down the cold truth behind a high incarceration rate: both public and private employers have a […]

June 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Both chambers of the Massachusetts state legislature have passed a “grand bargain” bill that — if signed by Governor Charlie Baker — will increase the minimum wage for most workers from $11/hour to $15/hour over the course of five years and will increase the minimum wage for tipped workers from $3.75 to $6.75 over the […]

May 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Cornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act in March of 2017, but Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) will not receive a unionization revote, an independent arbitrator ruled last week. In an email sent twenty-four hours prior to the election to unionize 2500 graduate research and teaching assistants, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the […]

May 14, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival launches today, as thousands of people will rally and engage in direct action at the US Capitol and state capitals across the country. Inspired by Martin Luther King’s 1967-1968 campaign, the Poor People’s Campaign is a national, grassroots, multiracial movement seeking to combat poverty […]

April 29, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

On Friday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced that the state legislature had reached a deal to raise teachers’ pay 20 percent by 2020 and to restore public education funding that has been cut since the last recession. Arizona teachers, who have been on strike since Thursday, reacted with skepticism and expressed frustration at Ducey’s refusal […]

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