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Make no mistake, this move by the COGS is indeed a stupid one

I showed up to make clear to these brave autoworkers that I have their backs. And Biden sent the same message when he walked their picket line.

Since graduate student workers voted to unionize this summer, organizers have continued to push for higher wages and greater support from the University.

The morning commute on Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C., was interrupted twice last month by the climate activist group Declare Emergency. As activists sat across highway lanes blocking traffic, drivers got out of their cars to confront the protesters. “We gotta go to fucking work!” one driver yelled. “We got kids to feed!” Another suggested the activists take their complaints to the White House. When police eventually cuffed and removed the protesters from the scen...

On September 6, graduate students at Cornell University organized a rally outside of Bailey Hall to officially launch the campaign to form the Cornell Graduate Student Union (CGSU). The unionization

With ongoing strikes interrupting industries across the country, it's safe to say that Wall Street has its eye on Main Street lately.

Workers at three big-box stores — Trader Joe’s, Barnes and Noble, and Michaels — formed unions in and around the Mountain Farms mall, with each becoming the first freestanding location in their respective national chains to organize.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the minimum graduate assistantship stipend for a 50% appointment at Iowa State University was $19,100. However, at the University of Iowa (UI), “the minimum salary rate for bargaining unit employees during the term of this Agreement will be $20,708 for a 50% academic year appointment and $25,300 for a fifty...

Graduate Student Voices (GSV) is an effort organized by Iowa State graduate students with the goal of unionizing. GSV is currently collecting signatures from students interested in holding a vote to unionize. “Over the last few years, I’ve kind of started personally interpreting it as the move to really get to a vote on unionization...

Organizing is surging into private universities, and strikes have increased as well. Last Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board certified it: Duke University Ph.D. student workers won a union.