As we prepare for the upcoming contract struggle here at CUNY, we should remember that there are thousands of other City employees in the same boat as us. Most of […]
Part-time and non-tenure track faculty at Fordham University have reached a tentative agreement with the Administration! They forced management to the table by threatening to strike. Just another example of […]
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Harper Collins strike approaches 50 days
Workers at the Harper Collins publishing company have been on strike for almost 50 days now, and management is still refusing to negotiate. Editors at the company want living wages, […]
France’s General Confederation of Labor, a national trade union center with three quarters of a million members, has threatened to cut off electricity to Members of Parliament and Billionaires amid […]
After an enthusiastic few days of striking, NYC nurses have reached a tentative agreement with two hospitals regarding staff-to-patient rations and salary raises. This is just another recent example of […]
A NY State Assembly bill (A906) now in committee proposes an amendment to the NY State Constitution, declaring the right to strike an employee right. Most of you are probably […]
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Fordham Support Rally
As Fordham’s part-time and non-tenure track faculty prepare to strike on January 30 if they don’t reach a tentative agreement with the Administration, they are holding a support rally at […]
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Nurses Strike Begins!
More than 7,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center have begun the largest nursing strike in decades. Their core demand is enforcement of staffing ratios. One […]
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Yale Graduate Workers Vote to Unionize!
Graduate teachers and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize. The vote passed with over 90% voting “yes.” We are seeing a clear resurgence of labor organizing within higher education […]
Part-time and non-tenure track full-time faculty at Fordham University are gearing up to strike starting January 30th if they fail to negotiate a tentative contract with the Administration before then. […]
