Tim Rupprecht News Today

On Nov. 14, the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University, or GENU-UAW, announced the members of its first bargaining committee, the union’s first major step towards bargaining with the university since its certification in September.  The election of a bargaining committee came almost two months after GENU-UAW officially became a certified union Sept. 21, with 94%...

On Thursday, Sept. 21, graduate student workers at Northeastern officially became a certified union in a vote that has been awaited since 2015. After a surge of organizing in 2022 and 2023, Graduate Employees of Northeastern University, or GENU-UAW, held an election from Tuesday, Sept. 19 to Thursday, Sept. 21 in tents on Robinson Quad...

Ahead of the union certification election for Northeastern’s graduate student union scheduled for Sept. 19, the city of Cambridge expressed its support to the union-hopefuls.  During the Cambridge City Council’s Aug. 7 meeting, councilors expressed support for the Northeastern graduate student union, known as Graduate Employees of Northeastern University-United Auto Workers Union, or GENU-UAW, by...

Ahead of the union certification election for Northeastern’s graduate student union scheduled for Sept. 19, the city of Cambridge expressed its support to the union-hopefuls.  During the Cambridge City Council’s Aug. 7 meeting, councilors expressed support for the Northeastern graduate student union, known as Graduate Employees of Northeastern University-United Auto Workers Union, or GENU-UAW, by...