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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.