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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 More

5 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 More

Graduate 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 More

Are 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 More

NLRB 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 More

NLRB: 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 More

USC'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 More

University 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 More

USC's Non-Tenure Track Professors Take First Step to Unionizing

Big news out of USC today, as over 500 non-tenure track faculty filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. Seeking to... Read More

University Lecturers on the Breadline: Is the UK Following in America’s Footsteps?

The Guardian takes a first-hand look at the U.S.' ongoing trend towards the corporatization of higher education, and the real effects of driving down the cost... Read More