by UAWD Steering Committee | Aug 16, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Autoworkers, New York Times, Organizing Committee, Shawn Fain, UAWD in the News
Noam Scheiber wrote for the New York Times: [Shawn] Fain, who won his position in March, is the first president in the union’s history, dating back nearly 90 years, to be elected directly by its members. The change took place after a major corruption scandal engulfed...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 31, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Direct Elections, New York Times, One Member One Vote, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Neal E. Boudette writes about this year’s UAW Constitutional Convention for the New York Times, quoting UAWD Steering Committee member Bill Parker: Now U.A.W. members have a chance to determine how much of a break from that past they want to make. In one of the...
by Justin | Jan 8, 2022 | Ashley Wong, Columbia University, New York Times, Student Workers of Columbia
Student workers at Columbia University gave their tentative blessing on Friday to a new contract that raises their wages and improves their health benefits, ending a 10-week strike that disrupted some classes and strained relations with administrators. Those on both...
by Justin | Dec 9, 2021 | Ashley Wong, Columbia University, Graduate Workers, New York Times, Student Workers of Columbia
The picket line came days after Dan Driscoll, the vice president of the university’s human resources department, sent an email to student workers saying that those who did not return to work by Friday were not guaranteed jobs next semester. The widely circulated email...
by Justin | Nov 25, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, New York Times, Student Workers of Columbia
Frustrated over slow-moving contract negotiations, Columbia University’s graduate student workers are on strike for the second time this year, with a labor contract and the university’s fraught relationship with its graduate students on the line. The Student Workers...
