Labor Studies
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Grad Students Are Employees: NLRB’s Historic New Ruling
It’s a battle cry that graduate students have been chanting for years: let us organize! Today, in a historic 3-1 ruling, the NLRB declared that graduate students at private universities are, in fact, employees — and are therefore eligible to organize, unionize and bargain as such. This ruling marks a reversal of the 2004 Brown University decision, wherein
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Fight for Fifteen: A National Convening
By Sarah Aziza Thousands converged in Richmond, Virginia over the weekend to participate in the Fight For $15’s first-ever national convention. Central to the two-day gathering was the historic Richmond Resolution, a statement of purpose and strategy that members approved unanimously on August 13. The convention culminated on Saturday, as 8,000 people marched in sweltering
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Las Vegas Cocktail Servers: A Union Triumph
What does being in a union really achieve? Ask the cocktail servers in Las Vegas. Perhaps an unlikely symbol of the triumphs of organizing, Culinary 226, the largest union local in Nevada, is a majority-female union — comprised in large part of older, immigrant women — and has shaped the Las Vegas casino workforce over
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Street Vendors & the Battle to Do Business
By Sean Basinski Whether they are classified as traditional workers, independent contractors, or self-employed entrepreneurs, street vendors in recent years have been asserting their rights to a greater piece of the economic pie – or hot dog, as the case may be. This is happening on the global scale, as vendor and other informal sector
