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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Yale grad students vote to unionize after decadeslong push

    January 11, 2023 // Graduate students across the U.S., both at public and private institutions, have pushed in recent years to organize and bargain collectively. Columbia University, another Ivy League school, in 2018 agreed to begin contract negotiations with a union representing its graduate student teaching and research assistants, ending a long battle in which the university denied them the right to unionize.

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Yale Union Election Is Latest Move in Campus Labor Renaissance

    December 5, 2022 // Unite Here Local 33 previously won a set of elections to represent several Yale academic departments as separate bargaining units before pulling the petitions to avoid the Trump board ruling on the university’s appeal. The union was able to move quickly to an election following the flip of partisan control at the NLRB. The in-person voting will take place a little over a month after the union filed its Oct. 24 representation petition.

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    News Article ● Unionization Unions

    Spurred on by SWC-UAW contract, student workers nationwide pursue greater workplace protections

    February 26, 2022 // The union's victories have spurred student-worker unions across the nation to fight for similar goals

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Unions

    Workers across the US are rising up. Can they turn their anger into a movement?

    January 3, 2022 // So far, increasingly militant workers are lacking something vital: a leader who can unite them all. Will that change?

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    Blog ● Labor

    Columbia U. student workers launch second largest strike in the country

    November 7, 2021 // Union of 3,000 strikes for the 2nd time this year.

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