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NTEU sets deadline for its members to resume paying dues
August 18, 2026 // According to three union officials, NTEU members who do not sign up for dues payments by Sept. 5 will lose access to the union’s benefits until they resume paying dues. This includes eligibility for NTEU representation, either individually or as part of a group, the opportunity to receive remedies or settlements won through NTEU litigation, as well as member-only information and updates.
Penn takes graduate worker union to court over eligibility dispute
August 12, 2026 // In March 2024, the NLRB ruled that educational fellowship recipients should be excluded from voting in the unionization election. GET-UP won an appeal the following month which allowed educational fellowship recipients to vote but left their status in the union’s bargaining unit up for future consideration. After the tentative agreement was reached, a Penn spokesperson wrote that the bargaining unit’s scope “was one of the many issues the University and GETUP-UAW resolved through negotiations.” GET-UP members told the DP at the time that the issue remained disputed and that they would continue pushing for the inclusion of “all workers” in the union.