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Faculty & Staff

Professors Locked Out of Classrooms Over Labor Dispute

NEW YORK ― Students at the New York City campus of Long Island University say they have begun the school year with classes being taught by replacement teachers of questionable quality after the administration locked out their regular professors as part of a bitter labor dispute. About 400 full-time and adjunct members of the faculty […]

September 13, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Vote to Call Strike at 14 Pennsylvania Universities

HARRISBURG, Pa. ― Faculty members at Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities have voted to call for a strike, but the union representing them said Monday they’ll keep working with the state system to resolve their disagreements, calling a strike a “last resort.” Over 90 percent of union faculty members who voted favored authorizing a strike, the […]

September 12, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Court Orders Board to Probe Professor’s Complaint About Dues

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board erred when it refused to investigate a college professor’s complaint involving the use of teacher union dues to promote the candidacy of Gov. Tom Wolf, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. State law prohibits public employee unions from using union funds to support political candidates. Mary Trometter, an assistant professor […]

September 8, 2016

Students

NLRB Rules Student Assistants at Private Colleges Allowed to Unionize

Student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act, and, as such, they are entitled to collective bargaining, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday.

August 23, 2016

Students

Warren: Let Harvard Grad Assistants Form Bargaining Units

BOSTON ― U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has urged Harvard University to let graduate students who work as research and teaching assistants form collective bargaining units. Warren and fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Markey sent a letter Monday to Harvard President Drew Faust, saying the students have helped make Harvard an academic world leader. They said […]

May 24, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Anti-Spellings Protests Backed by Faculty-Union Offshoot

RALEIGH, N.C. ― Opponents of incoming University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings include an offshoot of one of the country’s largest labor unions. Spellings is set to become the statewide public university system’s leader Tuesday. Some students plan a classroom walkout and rally on the university system’s flagship Chapel Hill campus. Similar anti-Spellings demonstrations […]

February 29, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Northeastern U. Reaches 1st Labor Deal with Adjunct Faculty

BOSTON ― Northeastern University says it has forged its first labor contract with a union representing adjunct faculty. The private school of 20,000 students announced on Thursday that it reached a tentative deal with the union more than a year after both sides began negotiating. Union officials said the contract gives most adjunct faculty a […]

January 14, 2016