Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Labor unions are in the news a lot these days. And it’s fair to say that conditions in higher education are ripe for a level of labor activism not seen in recent decades. And the number of petitions filed for new labor elections grew by more than 50 percent from the previous year.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Harvard University lecturers, postdoctoral researchers and other non-tenure-track academic workers launched a unionization campaign Monday. Harvard Academic Workers–UAW is trying to organize about 6,000 such employees across Harvard's three main campuses, the prospective union said in a news release.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Image: Tensions escalated last week between the University of California system and the New School and their respective striking academic workers. The New School also floated the idea of hiring replacement graders for the fall term and said it was doing “contingency planning” for the spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

News of the deals came several days after more than 230 professors in the system pledged publicly not to teach or submit grades during the strike. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: The academic researcher contract includes pay increases of 4.5 percent in the first year and 3.5 Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6 percent in 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The California Independent System Operator, the corporation managing the state’s power grid, reported in a news release Monday that the grid is under strain and residents can expect repeated power outages unless they reduce their energy use. Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Aug. Keeping the Heat at Bay.

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HESA

MAY 11, 2023

Dr. Deji-Folutile is editor-in-chief of Frank Talk Now and chief operating officer of AF24 News, who writes frequently on higher education matters from Lagos. But there are other issues at play in Nigeria as well. I mean, one consequence of inadequate funding is that faculty pay can be quite low and that can turn into paid disputes.

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