AROUND THE UAW
UW Researchers Begin the Fight to Organize
On Monday, Dec. 21, a majority of UW’s 1,500 researchers filed their representation petition with the Public Employment Relations Commission seeking to be certified as a new bargaining unit with UAW Local 4121, which represents more than 6,000 Academic Student...
How Generous Is Columbia University Really?
In its quest to casualize academic labor, Columbia refuses to recognize hundreds of student workers. Meanwhile, the university increases the cost of tuition to cover the bloated salaries of administrators. Read the article here.
Workers across the US are rising up. Can they turn their anger into a movement?
Will this surge of worker action and anger be a mere flash in the pan or will it be part of a longer-lasting phenomenon? The answer to this important question could turn on whether all this anger and energy are somehow transformed into a larger movement. At least for...
Strange Beasts of Columbia
Over the course of the pandemic, Columbia’s alleged financial crisis was at the heart of their anti-unionization push. This was quickly revealed to be a lie, as Columbia’s wealth grew $3.3 billion in 2020, amounting to a staggering $14 billion endowment. After the...
Jonah Furman: The week in US unions, December 25, 2021-January 1, 2022
Columbia University’s administration has tabled its “best and final offer” for UAW Local 2110, and it seems like the final sticking point is primarily over recognition of “casual” and hourly student workers as members of the bargaining unit. Whether the union will...
UC Student Researchers Union Gains Recognition
After months of negotiating deadlock, the University of California system formally recognized graduate student researchers as higher education employees and thus their right to unionize. “Almost every student researcher I’ve talked to knows someone who has been...
UAWD in the News in 2021
From the Sioux City Journal to the Louisville Courier Journal, here are all the times UAWD made the news in 2021.
85 years ago today, Flint Sit-Down Strike started, forcing recognition of the UAW
Eighty-five years ago today, Flint autoworkers seized control of the General Motors body plant where they worked, refusing to leave for 44 days and forcing the company to recognize the United Auto Workers, a critical moment in the history of the organized labor...
Revolutions Per Minute Podcast: Winning 1M1V and SRU-UAW winning recognition
Check out the latest episode of the Revolutions Per Minute Podcast on the fight for a democratic UAW that actually fights for its members. Also, Student Researchers United-UAW discuss how a strike threat won recognition for their 17,000 member union. Listen to the...
Union Election Data Website: Keep track of all the latest information from across the country
This website provides information about elections governed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since 2008. The data captures most private sector union elections in the United States; union elections governed by the Federal Labor Relations Agency (FLRA), the...
