Month: November 2018

How Graduate Unions Are Winning—and Scaring the Hell out of Bosses—in the Trump Era BY DANIEL MOATTAR (GWC-UAW Local 2110 Graduate Workers of Columbia / Facebook)   In a 1,035 to 720 vote, Columbia University’s graduate student union has agreed to a bargaining framework with the university’s administration, a milestone victory in the union’s nearly five-year… Continue reading In These Times: “How Graduate Unions Are Winning—and Scaring the Hell out of Bosses—in the Trump Era”

For immediate release November 28, 2018 Paola Rodelas (808) 333-4782 prodelas@5.unitehere.org Ikaika Hussey (808) 221-2843 ihussey@5.unitehere.org Striking UNITE HERE Members in Hawai’i Approve Historic Contract Media outlets may download photos and videos of the last day of picketing and the ratification vote here, crediting UNITE HERE Local 5. (HONOLULU) – Local 5 members voted overwhelmingly today… Continue reading Striking UNITE HERE Members in Hawai’i Approve Historic Contract

Columbia to bargain with grad student union, ending years-long struggle over union recognition ARIELLE SHTERNFELD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The decision to bargain signifies a massive victory for graduate student organizers, who first earned the legal right to unionize in a 2016 court case and voted to form a union in the months that followed. BY RAHIL… Continue reading Columbia Spectator: “Columbia to bargain with grad student union, ending years-long struggle over union recognition”

The two GOP governors weakened the labor movement in ways that will be felt for years, perhaps even decades. By Dave Jamieson DARREN HAUCK VIA GETTY IMAGES Scott Walker’s days as the union-busting governor of Wisconsin may be over, but the effects of his efforts will linger. Labor unions are celebrating the downfall of two… Continue reading HuffPost: “Unions Helped Beat Scott Walker And Bruce Rauner, But Only After The Damage Was Done”

In Iowa, Pioneering Undergrad Workers Union Keeps Growing November 06, 2018 / Meghan Brophy Grinnell student workers represented themselves at the NLRB and beat efforts by university administrators and lawyers from Iowa’s largest law firm to thwart the expansion of their union. Photo: Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers At a small liberal arts college in… Continue reading LaborNotes: “In Iowa, Pioneering Undergrad Workers Union Keeps Growing”

Today is Latina Equal Pay Day, the day in the year when Latina pay catches up to that of white, non-Hispanic men. That means Latinas work nearly 23 months to make what white, non-Hispanic men earn in one year. More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, women still get paid less… Continue reading AFL-CIO: “Latina Equal Pay Day”