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Tag: graduate assistants
News Roundup
University of Hawaii Graduate Assistants Sue for Right to Unionize
University of Hawaii grad assistants are suing to be considered public employees with the right to unionize and bargain, Star Advertiser reported. Academic Labor United and three grad assistants filed suit Saturday in Circuit Court in Honolulu against the Board of Regents, the Hawaii Labor Relations Board and the state of Hawaii. Although the state […]
May 5, 2021
News Roundup
Georgetown U’s Graduate Workers Reach Labor Contract Agreement
Graduate workers at Georgetown University reached an agreement on their first-ever labor contract, winning stipend and cost-of-living increases and an emergency assistance fund. The agreement, which covers more than 1,000 graduate assistants, will see them getting average annual stipend and cost-of-living increases of $5,000. The agreement also established a $50,000 emergency assistance fund and a […]
May 4, 2020
News Roundup
University of Illinois Graduate Assistants Approve Contract
URBANA, Ill. — University of Illinois graduate assistants have voted to approve a contract agreement with the school, following a strike that forced cancellation of several hundred classes. Graduate Employees Organization co-president Gus Wood tells The (Champaign) News-Gazette that the contract was ratified Friday, ending a strike that started Feb. 26 after nearly a year […]
March 14, 2018
Students
Yale Challenges Grad Assistants’ Union Bid Before NLRB
Yale University is challenging a bid by some of its graduate assistants to unionize in proceedings this week before the National Labor Relations Board that other private U.S. universities are closely watching.
September 14, 2016
Students
U of Missouri Dismissive of Grad Student Unionization Effort
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri asserts in a court filing that graduate students have no rights to collective bargaining. And if they do have that right, they are doing it wrong, attorney Michael Kaemmerer wrote in a brief filed last week in Boone County Circuit Court, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. The filing […]
June 21, 2016
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