AROUND THE UAW
Blue Cross Blue Shield boots unvaccinated staffers in Lansing
At least two dozen unvaccinated employees at the Lansing offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Accident Fund were put on unpaid leave this week for failing to follow through with a company mandate to get their COVID-19 shots by Wednesday.“We’ve had...
Despite threats, biggest strike in the US continues at New York City’s Columbia University
The graduate workers union, a local of the United Auto Workers, has filed two unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board. If the Board rules in their favor, it would classify the strike as an unfair labor practice strike and make the...
Detroit Free Press: UAW grows by 17,000 academic workers in California after threat to strike UC
Laura Beebe, a scientist based at the University of California, San Diego, is celebrating news that she's among more than 17,000 higher education workers on the west coast who now officially are represented in contract negotiations by the UAW. It wasn't easy. A quiet...
Striking Columbia Student Workers Picket University, Supported by New School Unions
Numerous unions from across New York City were present at the picket line supporting Columbia student workers including ACT-UAW Local 7902 the union that represents New School part-time faculty, health workers, and student workers as well as NYU adjunct...
Opinion: The racist, anti-worker closure of NYU’s English Language Institute
Instructors at the institute were cut off from in-School of Professional Studies students they had been working with. Ritter confirmed that several schools formally appealed the dean’s decision because they had students that depended on the English Language Insitute’s...
GEO continues impassioned negotiations with UMass Boston
UMass Boston’s Graduate Employee Organization is currently in contentious, collective bargaining with a team from the university’s Human Resources department. The Human Resources team represents the university and the Board of Trustees. As of now, the GEO is working...
Navistar tentative contract extension agreement ratified in Springfield
Navistar production workers and those in skilled trades at the Springfield facility voted to ratify a tentative two-year contract extension agreement that will include signing bonuses and a 4% pay increase.UAW Local 402, which represents those workers, held a...
New York Times: Tensions Rise at Columbia as Strikers Fear Retaliation From University
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...
Illinois ACLU Staff Can Vote To Join Atty Union, NLRB Official Says
A National Labor Relations Board official ordered a representation election at an Illinois ACLU-affiliated organization in which attorneys and other staff members will vote on whether to be represented by a United Auto Workers-affiliated union. Read the article...
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