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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. In 2017, Yale student workers in eight departments even voted to unionize as part of an unusual “micro-unit” strategy. He added, “I saw our health-care costs go drastically down.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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