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Boston Nurses Stage Largest Strike in Massachusetts History
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (315+ words) BOSTON " More than 4, 000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital walked off the job Wednesday in what the Massachusetts Nurses Association described as the largest nurse's strike in the state's history and the first strike ever at the Boston hospital. The…...
Ondo varsity lecturers begin indefinite strike over unpaid salaries
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (273+ words) Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Governor Ondo State Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Branch, have declared an indefinite strike over alleged unpaid salaries by the state government. The strike action commenced following the resolution…...
LAUSD warning
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (1626+ words) Why now: The July 2 Los Angeles County Office of Education letter said the district's new labor agreements " which will cost an additional $1 billion next school year " along with an existing budget deficit and declining enrollment, create a "severe fiscal event....
UCP Workers Guild Wins Recognition in Union Election
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (288+ words) The UCP Workers Guild, representing University of Chicago Press employees, won recognition Wednesday through an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Eighty-nine percent of 134 eligible workers voted in favor of unionizing as a unit of the Chicago…...
Riverdale-area school safety agents join citywide push for higher wages
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (525+ words) More than 100 school safety agents serving the greater Riverdale area and New York City at large are advocating for higher pay and better working conditions. They are calling on their labor union, Teamsters Local 237, and the New York Police Department…...
Ohio's collective bargaining laws are a drag on its schools
6+ hour, 1+ min ago (315+ words) Nonetheless, the authors" methodological choices are reasonable, their analysis is systematic and transparent, and the rankings generally validate political wisdom (e. g. , that blue states tend to have stronger teacher unions). For those of us who have monitored the diverging paths of…...
Nurses at Brigham and Women's in Boston continue to strike
23+ hour, 17+ min ago (50+ words) Yahoo More than a thousand replacement nurses were brought in to cover shifts for five days because of the strike. Due to the contracts for those replacement nurses, the striking nurses cannot return to the job for four more days....
Strike averted! UM nurses reach tentative agreement after 9 months of negotiations
22+ hour, 49+ min ago (153+ words) Audacy Condition: Post with Page_List Ask your smart speaker to Detroit All Local from WWJ Newsradio The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum after a secret journey from France China braces for a powerful typhoon after a week of deadly…...
USC Faculty Won Their Union. The Administration Wants Trump's NLRB to Undo It.
17+ hour, 54+ min ago (949+ words) The following story by Mark Kreider is a crosspost from Capital & Main When a faculty group'at the University of Southern California'voted overwhelmingly to unionize'in June, the university cloaked its decision to appeal the result of the election in the most…...
Nurses" union reaches tentative contract agreement with Michigan Medicine
16+ hour, 28+ min ago (356+ words) On Thursday morning, the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council announced a tentative contract agreement with Michigan Medicine. The agreement comes after nine months of negotiations, which have continued past the expiration of the union's previous contract on March 31." Bargaining…...