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PERSPECTIVES: A Sign of Our Times — A University Litigates Against Its Own

“It’s time for the administration to get serious and give graduate workers an offer that meets our needs,”

by Future U/ June 11, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“The University of Michigan Graduate Employee Organization will go on strike Tuesday as classes begin on campus, citing concerns over …

by Future U/ September 7, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

Groups at eight Big Ten universities, including Michigan and Michigan State, have signed on to this effort. Read more here …

by Future U/ May 29, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

The university said students engaged in a wildcat strike. “The students are striking for a $1,412-a-month cost-of-living adjustment, which they …

by Future U/ February 28, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

“Thousands of Harvard’s graduate student workers are preparing to go on strike Tuesday after failing to reach a contract agreement …

by Future U/ December 2, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

“If university administrators want to preserve the distinctive character of their institutions, they should do so by honoring the unionization …

by Future U/ August 10, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Here’s the editorial stance from Nature.

by Future U/ November 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Seven campuses are featured in this article, published in The Nation. Read more here.

by Future U/ August 10, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

“CU said that tactics, like voter coercion, may have tipped the balance. The National Labor Relations Board should invalidate the …

by Future U/ December 28, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

From the NYTs: “For decades, universities treated graduate teaching and research assistants not as professionals in their own right, but …

by Future U/ September 12, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/