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Boston U. Residence Life Workers Strike, Joining Grad Students
Boston University, three weeks into dealing with an ongoing graduate student worker strike, saw Residence Life workers join the walkout...
National Protest Day Planned Against ‘Attacks’ on Higher Ed
Faculty members and students plan to hold events across numerous campuses Wednesday, April 17, to kick-start a movement against what...
Full-time Faculty Raises Finally Beat Inflation … Just Barely
With the dollar’s declining value taken into account, new data shows that real wages grew by half a percent. But pay remains well below pre-pandemic levels, and full-time women and part-timers continue to receive less than others.
Nontenure Track Harvard Lecturers and Researchers Unionize
Nontenure track employees who teach or conduct research at Harvard University voted last week to unionize, creating a new bargaining...
Boston University Denies It Would Use AI to Replace Striking Teaching Assistants
Boston University is pushing back against criticisms following a dean’s suggestion that AI tools be used amid a graduate students’...
Boston University Graduate Student Workers Strike
Boston University graduate student workers began striking Monday, calling for better pay, improved health care coverage and guaranteed childcare subsidies...
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Higher Ed Workers Seek to Coordinate Nationally
A group called Higher Ed Labor United is trying to overcome the silos that divide unions and keep them from working together against the many threats to colleges and universities.
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Florida Law Threatens to Defund, Disband Higher Ed Unions
Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation last year threatening to decertify unions if fewer than 60 percent of bargaining unit members paid dues. Faculty unions are threatened but not yet erased.