Daily Trojan: Graduate Students Team with USC Forward to Establish Union
The Daily Trojan reporting today on our organizing efforts on campus, quoting many graduate students about the push for unionization at USC: "Karlynne... Read MoreMarch 1: #CampusResistance
On March 1, faculty, graduate students, and undergrads participated in a national #CampusResistance day of action. Across the country, faculty and students on... Read MoreBack on Campus, Back in Action
Colleagues, My name is Robert Chlala and I’m a research assistant in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. As you may have heard, USC... Read More5 Reasons We're Forming a Graduate Student Union at USC
As you may have heard, graduate students at private universities recently won the right to form unions. We’re writing you today to tell you why... Read MoreGraduate Students Are Uniting to Change Higher Education
Dear Fellow Graduate Student Employees: We are writing to share why we are coming together to improve our working conditions and to ask you to join us. As... Read MoreAre they Students? Or are they Employees? NLRB Rules that Graduate Students are Employees
The Washington Post reports on the NLRB's landmark ruling clearing the way for graduate students to organize unions on their campusesL "The National Labor... Read MoreNLRB Reports USC Violated Federal Laws
From the Daily Trojan: "A report released by the NLRB Monday supported these objections and rendered the original Dornsife vote invalid. The ruling, issued by... Read MoreNLRB: USC Broke the Law in Faculty Unionization Vote
Inside Higher Ed reports on the lengths USC administrators are willing to go to stop faculty unionization efforts: “'Provost [Michael] Quick engaged in... Read MoreUSC's Tuition Will Top $50,000 for the First Time
The Los Angeles Times reports: "USC, always striving to reach new heights, is set to cross a dubious milestone: Tuition for the 2016-2017 academic year will... Read MoreUniversity of Chicago Nontenured Faculty Votes to Form Union
Huge news out of Illinois as UChicago faculty win their union election by a 4-to-1 margin, from the Chicago Tribune: "A group of nontenured instructors at the... Read MoreMaybe it's time for USC to think about something other than money, prestige, and football championships?
Yet another USC scandal requires blunt talk about money culture and values on campus
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Dismissal of football coach, NCAA sanctions preceded medical school dean controversy at USC
"To recap: Poorly paid workers at a rich institution, who suffered from low pay, poor benefits, and little job security, organized and came together and collectively bargained. In exchange for their efforts they won significant pay increases, better benefits, and greater job security. They did this even while working at an institution hostile to their goals. If you do what they did you can get what they got.
Anyone who tells you otherwise does not want you to get a raise."
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Adjunct professors—the worker ants of higher education—are the lowest-paid highly educated workers in America. What could unions do for them? Here is your freaking answer.