As Democrats audition for their hoped for role as the new Congressional majority, the flow of progressive ideas just keeps coming. So far, they promise to raise taxes, to manifest from thin air “free” college and “free” healthcare, and to be legislative busybodies who monitor our speech, thoughts, and...
Is this where the unionization of grad student teaching assistants is headed? Union activism as a substitute for real classwork?
Campus Reform reports:
TA asks students to show up at unionization sit-in for class
George Washington University graduate students are seeking to unionize, and at least one Teaching Assistant asked students show up at...
It will be fascinating to see how this new power is used.
From Boston.com:
Harvard graduate students vote to unionize
A group of Harvard University graduate students has voted to join the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, an unlikely union for academics.
The Boston Globe reports that 1,931 graduate students, including...
This is becoming a trend at many schools. What will the schools do when these unions start flexing their muscle and striking?
The Daily Caller reports:
Georgetown Relents, Lets Students Vote On Unionizing
Georgetown University announced Monday that it will allow its graduate students to vote on forming a union, overturning a December refusal.
The...
Will students protest this? After all, the cost will ultimately be passed on to them.
The Daily Caller reports:
Michigan Profs Demand Double Salary, Threaten To Strike
Approximately 1,700 Michigan professors demanded a pay raise Wednesday that would nearly double the starting salary for lecturers and threatened to go on strike for two days.
Eighty...
Teacher unions on the other hand, are all about caring for the children, right? Please.
The College Fix reports:
Teachers union president: Betsy DeVos ‘in her heart doesn’t care about children’
The president...
My post about Cornell students complaining about $5 on-campus coffee prices elicited a strong readership response, Cornell on-campus cafe raises prices after state-mandated minimum wage hike:
Georgetown turned down previous unionization requests by grad students so they’re bringing in the big guns.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Georgetown graduate students to file with National Labor Relations Board in unionization fight
Georgetown University graduate students are doubling down after school officials formally declined to acknowledge the creation of a graduate student union,...
The left won’t be happy until all of academia is unionized.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Georgetown Grad Assistants Seek Union Recognition
Graduate assistants at Georgetown University on Wednesday asked the institution to voluntarily recognize them as a labor union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. In a letter to campus President John DeGioia,...
This is a no brainer for him. Bernie also thinks school should be free – for the students.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Bernie Sanders Lends Support to U. Chicago Grad Students’ Unionization Effort
Sen. Bernie Sanders has lent his support to the unionization efforts of graduate students at the University of Chicago, as...
Last week, Austria’s National Union of Students (ÖH), the country’s leading student body, passed a sternly worded resolution condemning the anti-Israel boycott campaign — or the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” Movement — trying to get a foothold in the country. The student body raised concerns about the “growing presence of the...
If grad students unionize, what comes next? Labor strikes? Using union power for politics?
The Chicago Tribune reports:
University of Chicago grad students to hold union vote
A group of about 2,500 University of Chicago graduate students have been cleared to proceed with a union vote, a victory for organizers after a long hear...
Nissan plant employees in Canton, Mississippi voted nearly two to one against unionization, but the UAW isn’t giving up despite this crushing rebuke. They are prevailing upon the NLRB to proceed with charges against the Canton Nissan plant that include alleged “unfair” treatment of the plant’s workers and “anti-union” activity.
The progressive...
Earlier this year, I wrote about the UAW’s unionization efforts at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi. Casting Nissan as the villain, failed presidential candidate and current socialist Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders is stepping up his pressure on Nissan and its workers at the Canton plant.
Nissan’s Canton plant employees are...
This demonstration was connected to the grad students who recently held a symbolic hunger strike.
The Daily Caller reports:
BREAKING — Thousands Of Union Protestors Disrupt Yale Graduation
Thousands of union activists have swarmed downtown New Haven to force Yale University to negotiate a contract that would bring its recently formed union to the...
In our report earlier, we noted that the “Resistance” to Donald Trump is unlike anything seen in the opposition to Obama, The “Resistance” Moves Towards Violence and Intimidation as Key Tactic.
The opposition to Trump is becoming increasingly violent, and explicitly seeks to drive political intimidation into personal spaces by confronting Republicans everywhere they...
The price to be paid by conservatives on campus is a topic I have been covering frequently.
I discussed recently the issues at Cornell in For conservatives at Cornell University, high price for free speech, and more generally the atmosphere on many campuses in The new Cultural Revolution on Campuses
On May 1, 2017, I...
