Harvard University's contingent faculty members form Harvard Academic Workers, affiliating with UAW, aiming for better pay and job security. Read to learn more.
UAW Arab Caucus to union president Shawn Fain: The union must take action to translate the UAW’s ceasefire declaration to practical interruption of the weapons our UAW siblings are making, sending to Israel, and are being used to kill our families.
For the first time in five years, Massachusetts’ minimum wage did not rise at the start of the new year. It stayed constant at $15 an hour. This year marks the end of the gradual increase signed into law in 2018 by then-Gov. Charlie Baker. The next push for advocates is raising the minimum wage.
On Nov. 14, the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University, or GENU-UAW, announced the members of its first bargaining committee, the union’s first major step towards bargaining with the university since its certification in September. The election of a bargaining committee came almost two months after GENU-UAW officially became a certified union Sept. 21, with 94%.
Graduate student workers at Northeastern University have voted 1,130 to 70 to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board says. There were 179 challenged ballots. Either side can challenge ballots in union elections, but the NLRB said those ballots “were not counted because they are not determinative to the outcome.”