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...
David B. Collum is a world-renowned Chemistry Professor at Cornell University, where I teach at the law school. He has been at Cornell since 1980, and is Department Chair through the end of this academic year.
I don’t know Dave well, but we have met before.
He is something of a Renaissance man, able...
Yale students are engaging in a hunger strike for collective bargaining rights but you need to read the fine print on their fast.
First, this report from the Yale Daily News:
Local 33 members begin hunger strike
Eight members of the graduate student union Local 33 began an indefinite, collective fast in front of...
When Californian’s went to the polls this November to approve the legalization of marijuana for personal use, little did they realize it would morph into a battle between unions and business.
The state is now slated to begin distributing licenses to marijuana businesses on Jan 1, 2018. Therefore, the Golden State’s leg...
Having worked their destructive magic in Detroit, the United Auto Workers union (UAW) has set its greedy sights on the South. Roundly rejected by Tennessee workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in 2014, the UAW picked itself up, dusted itself off, and redoubled its thirteen-year efforts at a Nissan plant in...
The people who voted no are in the majority but there are multiple votes being challenged. We all know what that means, right?
The Harvard Crimson reported:
BREAKING: Harvard Student Unionization Vote Remains Too Close To Call
The National Labor Relations Board will hold hearings to determine the fate of Harvard’s student unionization effort...
They already had a vote on this and the pro-union side won. Challenging the results will not end well.
The Columbia Spectator reports:
University objects to unionization vote, calls for new election
The University has filed an objection with the National Labor Relations Board regarding the vote by teaching...
Grad students at Columbia have been fighting for the right to unionize for some time. Now they’ve got it and they joined the United Auto Workers union. Doesn’t that sound a little strange?
The Wall Street Journal reported:
Columbia University Grad Students Join UAW After Battle for Right to Unionize
Columbia University graduate students...
Workers at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport have planned to strike after Thanksgiving for a higher wage and union rights. Fox News reported:
Service Employees International Union Local 1 officials said Mond...
On Friday, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law NY State Senate bill S6340, making it illegal in the state of New York to advertise “for the use of dwelling units in a class A multiple dwelling.” This law is aimed at Airbnb, a San Francisco-based homestay network that coordinates...
The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that graduate students at private universities have a right to unionize. Grad students at Cornell University have formed a group to do this and in news reported in school newspaper, one of their first acts was to eject a reporter from their first meeting.
The...
Because I have been traveling, I’m late to this important development.
In early April we reported how a State court judge throws out Wisconsin Right to Work Law in an absurd decision:
When conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election last Tuesday, we pointed out how important that court has been in...
