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Following a lack of movement from the city in bargaining, Berkeley's Service Employees International Union, or SEIU 1021, authorized a strike if necessary, with 93% agreement. For seven months, SEIU [...]

Byline: Noor Khanafer The University Insider is The Daily's first faculty and staff-oriented newsletter. This weekly newsletter will give U-M faculty and staff the ability to see the most important [...]

Service Employees International Union has begun filing charges against the University to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board after learning that three departments of the University have required employees to [...]

Service Employees International Union , Local 73 , an organization that represents building and food service workers, rallied on Friday at noon to gather support for their part of current [...]

Published August 22, 2024 On Aug. 21, Service Employees International Union, Local 560 -- the union representing the men's basketball team -- filed an unfair labor practice charge against the [...]

City worker unions continue to advocate for better contracts and inflation-adjusted wages, with various city officials, including Mayor Jesse Arreguín, having signaled support for an open bargaining process and indexing [...]

Byline: Nick Pecora Santa Clara Adjunct and Lecturer Union Approves First-Ever Contract The Santa Clara Adjunct and Lecturer Union approved the first-ever contract between the union and the Santa Clara [...]

Byline: Amy Moore content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-drop-cap-inverted'> The irony was not lost on Santa Rosa Junior College student-employee Alonso Rodríguez Villalobos that he had to quit his job as a student success [...]

Byline: Claudia MinettiJi Hoon Choi The University Insider is The Daily's first faculty and staff-oriented newsletter. This weekly newsletter will give U-M faculty and staff the ability to see the [...]

Following recent surges in union actions at San Francisco State University -- like the California Faculty Association's strike on Dec. 5 and a Teamsters picket on Nov. 14 -- Service [...]

Byline: Kathryn S. KuharAran Sonnad-JoshiSheerea X. Yu Arnold Arboretum workers unanimously ratified a new contract agreement with Harvard last Friday following months of months of impasse. Arboretum employees have worked [...]

Byline: Olivia SanchezMiriam Waldvogel While current union drives for graduate students and postdoctoral workers have yet to be recognized by the University, Jeff Coley, the president of Service Employees International [...]

Byline: Alexander Banks content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> Editor's note: This is an ongoing situation, and the Barometer will continue to update readers on it. On Friday, February 23, contract negotiations between the [...]

The Sacramento Public Employment Relations Board's regional office announced Friday morning that student assistants are joining the California State University Employees Union in a landmark decision. The election, held electronically [...]

Byline: Andrew Bae A Durhamite since 2014, social justice advocate Khalilah Karim's election bid for Durham City Council relies on three core tenets: community, economy and the environment. Karim was [...]

Byline: Sam Levine Maria Jimeo, a union steward for SEIU Local 32BJ, said that she attended the rally in support of USENTRA workers and hopes they can secure better benefits [...]

Byline: Ian Auger Dane County Board Chair Patrick Miles selected the candidates to temporarily fill three empty spots on the Dane County Board of Supervisors Sept. 19. The District 13, [...]

Byline: Natasha Hicks Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin stood alongside UW Health nurses as they spoke out publicly on Friday to encourage a wage cap increase for Veteran nurses. Nurses [...]

Byline: Max Porter The National Labor Relations Board vacated a previous ruling that favored GW Hospital over its employees in a labor dispute. The NLRB, in a 2-1 vote on [...]

Byline: Justin Walgren Since 2015, non-tenure-track faculty at UChicago have been unionized under UChicago Faculty Forward. The union brokered its first collective bargaining agreement with the University in 2018 and [...]

Duke administrators sent an email Monday to doctoral students and faculty acknowledging the intent of the Duke Graduate Students Union's to hold an election with the National Labor Relations Board. [...]

Members of the Service Employees International Union held an informational picket Tuesday at 11 a.m. outside the Sacred Heart Medical Center University District in Eugene. SEIU is a union that [...]

Byline: Madeleine Afonso UW Health nurses, management, Gov. Tony Evers and Service Employees International Union Healthcare Wisconsin reached a historic agreement at the Capitol on Monday, avoiding a three-day labor [...]

Byline: Madeleine Afonso Hundreds of UW Health nurses voted to go on strike for safe, quality patient care and recognition of their union last month, according to the Service Employees [...]

The California Dialysis Clinic Requirements Initiative will be listed as a ballot item in California's November midterm elections, supported by the workers' union Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers, [...]

Byline: Jenny Jacoby Demonstrators gathered on South Dixie Highway, across from the Lennar Center, on April 12 to protest ABM's treatment of their workers. Photo credit: Jenny Jacoby In the [...]

Cyrus Hampton addressing the crowd in front of the Administration building. Photo courtesy of Jasper Smith. After hours of deliberation, the Howard University administration and the Service Employees International Union [...]

By: Onyx Hunter onyxhunter@gmail.com The Service Employees International Union 1021 has distributed a petition of no confidence against the current City College Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Technology Officer Ellen [...]

Byline: Zachary Khouri Protestors rallied at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Wednesday to pressure Sutter Health on behalf of patients and workers who are affected by high [...]

Byline: Eleanor Hildebrandt Following the conclusion of contract negotiations, the Service Employees International Union 199 is gearing up for semi-monthly conversations with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics facilitated [...]

Byline: Rachel Schilke and Caleb McCullough The state Board of Regents ratified labor contracts with three unions at its institutions on Friday, approving a 1.3 percent annual pay increase for [...]

About 100 protestors chanted 'When we vote, we win!' Downtown on Wednesday afternoon, as passing cars honked their horns in support. One of the demonstrators was Lisa Frank, a member [...]

Byline: Jean Garcia On Monday, July 20th, thousands of workers across the country walked off their jobs to demand racial and economic justice as part of a nationwide walkout called [...]

Byline: Maria Young Redirecting police funding to community services and holding all police accountable were some of the demands made by Bay Area labor unions at a Black Lives Matter [...]

Byline: Grace Carroll Custodial workers employed through the contractor UG2 received the first of three payments on Friday, a month and a half after the University committed to providing financial [...]

Byline: Tessa Love SEIU logo. Over the last month, Mills College has seen an influx of support for the adjunct faculty: flyers have appeared across campus alerting the community that [...]

Byline: David Buuck This week saw the beginning of a historic election here at Mills as adjunct professors* vote on whether or not to unionize with SEIU (Service Employees International [...]

By Emyle Watkins, Art & Photography Director In June, Canisius College's Board of Trustees enacted a cut to benefits of faculty and staff members affecting how much the college will [...]

By Nathan Ress Managing Editor The unionized facilities workers at Canisius College came one step closer to a possible labor strike. The workers voted Monday to give authority to their [...]

Byline: Alexandra Feldman At its upcoming Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council will vote on a consent item that, if passed, will increase the minimum remote overtime pay for city employees [...]

The Service Employees International Union voted Tuesday to ratify the tentative agreement between the SEIU and Oregon's public universities that was decided in late Sept. This process was the final [...]

Amid cancelled classes during the Chicago Teachers Union and Service Employees International Union strike, the Hyde Park community has organized activities for students and in support of striking workers. Classes [...]

Byline: Alex Hargrave The Service Employees International Union , which represents St. Joe's cleaners, has reached a tentative agreement with the cleaning and maintenance company Arthur Jackson to increase the [...]

This piece reflects the views of David Purucker, a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, and not those of Emerald Media Group. It has been edited by the [...]

isAccessibleForFree' content='true'/> Monday and Tuesday may be the last chance for classified employees at Oregon's public universities and university administrators to reach an agreement and prevent a strike. After 95% [...]

After six months of negotiating the contract for classified employees at Oregon's seven public universities and two days of 'frustrating' mediated bargaining at Western Oregon University, members of the Service [...]

Byline: Emily Hom Oakland's Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, Local 1021 and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, or IFPTE, Local 21 filed unfair practice charges against the [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS RICCARDIAssociated Press From liberal firebrands Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to moderates Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper, nearly the entire 2020 Democratic presidential field agrees that the federal [...]

Byline: Gabriel BamforthSince Carnegie Mellon Dining switched food service providers back in June 2018, business has been slower than expected. Locations such as the Tartan Pavilion and Resnik House Servery, [...]

Byline: MIA SPEIERulian Hirschbaum, a second-year internal medicine pediatric resident at the L.A. County-USC medical center, said that medical professionals should be able to treat those in detention centers. (Photo [...]