Tag: Employee strike

COVID-19

University of Michigan Seeks Injunction to Stop Graduate Student Protests

University of Michigan President Dr. Mark Schlissel is seeking an injunction to get protesting graduate students back to teaching, The Michigan Daily reported. This comes a day after the Graduate Employees’ Organization voted to extend its strike, citing unmet demands. Schlissel is asking a county circuit court to require GEO members to work by issuing […]

September 15, 2020

Students

22 U.S. Representatives Write Letter Supporting Harvard’s Graduate Worker Strike

Twenty-two Harvard graduates currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter on Dec. 20 in support of the university’s graduate student employees who began striking for health insurance, a higher minimum wage and better protections against discrimination on Dec. 3. In the letter, the alumni emphasize a worker’s rights to unionize and […]

December 29, 2019

News Roundup

University of California Nurses, Cooks Strike for Third Day

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and other medical staff joined walkouts by service workers again Wednesday, forcing medical centers to close and reschedule thousands of appointments and surgeries. The three-day strike was called last week by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 when the union and […]

May 9, 2018

News Roundup

University of Illinois Graduate Assistants Approve Contract

URBANA, Ill. — University of Illinois graduate assistants have voted to approve a contract agreement with the school, following a strike that forced cancellation of several hundred classes. Graduate Employees Organization co-president Gus Wood tells The (Champaign) News-Gazette that the contract was ratified Friday, ending a strike that started Feb. 26 after nearly a year […]

March 14, 2018