Labor and strikes

Graduate student unions are making advances at Columbia University, Fordham University, Loyola University Chicago, Georgetown University, Brown University and other institutions of higher learning. Columbia University’s graduate student union agreed to a bargaining framework with […]

Chicago teachers have launched the first major charter school strike. The teachers and their union charge that the “independent” schools are overcrowded and underfunded. Charter schools are being used to create a second tier in […]

Google’s temporary, vendor and contract workers (TVCs) are demanding better pay and access to benefits. TVCs make up more than half of the company’s workforce. A letter from the TVCs to Google CEO Sundar Pichai […]