UAW
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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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What’s Next for NYU Graduate Students Union?
In a recent article published in Labor Notes, Natasha Raheja, a third-year PhD student in Anthropology at New York University and a member of GSOC-UAW, celebrates the recent win for NYU’s graduate students, who, she writes, “are poised to again become the only private sector student workers with a union contract in the U.S.” She…
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Responses to Nick Unger’s “Another Look at Labor in Dark Times – Part 3”
On July 3rd, we posted Part III of Nick Unger’s series on union structures, labor history and union member consciousness. What follows is a response to that piece. From Martin Morand, Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Labor Relations, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Nick’s (rare?) compliment (“Morand is right”) encourages me to plunge in and ahead. Yes,…
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Getting To Know Elizabeth Hawes, 1903-1971
By Kitty Weiss Krupat A brief profile of the American fashion designer, Elizabeth Hawes, appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine on Sunday, June 15. The essay, by Alice Gregory, is titled The Most Brilliant Fashion Designer, and it starts this way: Introducing Elizabeth Hawes: genius writer, wry cultural commentator, perverse humorist, gifted artist and…
