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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Podcast with Jen Klein: Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale
A group of Yale graduate students are protesting their labor conditions as teachers. They are demanding the administration recognize them as a union.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 29, 2017
Call for Proposals
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Call for Proposals: 45th Annual Conference for the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of New York, invites.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike, by Jennifer Klein, New York Times (May 9, 2017)
Two weeks ago, Yale graduate student teachers began a hunger strike to pressure the school to negotiate with their union. Eight committed to.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 16, 2017
In Memoriam
Judith Stein, 1940-2017
It is with a heavy heart that I forward the news that Judith Stein has passed away after a long struggle with cancer..
- by James Gregory
- May 16, 2017
LAWCHA
Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services.
- by Sarah Attfield
- May 15, 2017
LAWCHA
Collection Spotlight: Collective Bargaining Agreements Online
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Cornell University’s ILR School is pleased to announce the digitization of over 2800 collective.
- by Kheel Center
- May 9, 2017
LAWCHA
Mr. Trump and the Super-Person Tax Rate
Working people who felt forgotten or ignored by the government voted for a change. What used to be a fairly solid voting block.
- by David Obringer
- May 9, 2017
LAWCHA
Find and Follow Your North Star
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has now won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction, and it’s a fitting choice.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 25, 2017
LAWCHA
African Labor Migrants, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
Seventeen years ago, Chris Muwani migrated from Zimbabwe to South Africa, where he works on a tomato farm. If he does not fulfill.
- by Tula Connell
- April 21, 2017