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GSU-UE will file for an election with the National Labor Relations Board after the University formally stated its opposition to recognizing the union.

This push for recognition, which will be GSU’s second, comes at a moment of heightened campus labor activism across the country.

After Northwestern administrators decided not to recognize NU Graduate Workers’ union with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, the group has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election for the formal recognition of its union. The petition was filed Nov. 17 and will set up the...

Northwestern will not voluntarily recognize the NU Graduate Workers union with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America until graduate students conduct a union election, Provost Kathleen Hagerty told NUGW on Monday. Last Thursday, graduate workers marched across campus, delivering a letter to Hagerty demanding the University voluntarily recognize its union by 5...

GE Transportation plans to end most locomotive production at its century-old plant in northwestern Pennsylvania, eliminating about 575 jobs.

Kim Kelly’s survey of labor organizing in America—telling the stories of workers on the margins, from miners to sex workers—offers hope and inspiration for working-class victories to come.

MONTAGUE — All 17 warrant articles — including Hillcrest Elementary School flooring costs, budgeting for the design and construction of the Colle Opera House’s roof, and creation of an opioid settlement stabilization fund — passed without much debate...

HANOVER — Before enrolling at Dartmouth College, Rendi Rogers used her savings to move from Oklahoma to the Upper Valley.What awaited her in Hanover was a $35,000 annual stipend to teach and conduct research while taking courses toward her doctorate...

MONTAGUE — Funding for unanticipated Hillcrest Elementary School flooring costs, budgeting for the design and construction of the Colle Opera House’s roof, and creation of an opioid settlement stabilization fund highlight Thursday’s 17-article Special...

At a rally on the quad on Tuesday, September 27, Graduate Students United (GSU) announced the beginning of a new “signing card” campaign that puts graduate student workers on track to win representation in a legally recognized union. Hundreds of graduate student workers from across the University gathered on the quad alongside representatives from Faculty...