Just over a year after the Northwestern University Graduate Workers received formal recognition from the University, union leaders are reflecting on what has — and hasn’t — changed. After years of community organizing, NUGW held its first election, winning a supermajority of support to file with the National Labor Relations Board to certify the United.
Buoyed by the University of California strike, the largest in America’s higher-ed history, one student says, “It’s a moment for grad-worker organizing.”
Northwestern University Graduate Workers kicked off its union election Tuesday, the first of two days of voting in Evanston and Chicago. The election, moderated by the National Labor Relations Board, is the product of years of grassroots organizing by graduate workers. If a majority of voters vote “yes,” the NLRB will authorize the United Electrical,.