Campus Workers

  • Student-Labor Alliance Aims to Lift Standards at Vanderbilt
    Benjamin Eagles
    Apr 3 2012 - 12:39pm

    Vanderbilt University has one of the highest-paid administrations around, but its dining hall workers make just $10.78 an hour. A student-community group has formed to institutionalize support for them.

  • Struggling to Organize, Adjuncts Succeed at American University

    Adjunct professors at American University in Washington, D.C., won a union last month, but not before two years of organizing made it possible.

  • Rank and File Slate Takes Over Giant California Campus Local
    Marie Choi
    Nov 21 2011 - 12:01pm

    After months of member-to-member organizing, a group of AFSCME Local 3299 rank and filers swept October elections in the 20,000-member union on University of California campuses.

  • VIDEO: Student Occupations at Five Campuses

    When it comes to budget cuts and policies that hurt students and campus workers, student activists are refusing to sit down…unless it’s in their president’s office. This week and last, students at five universities staged sit-ins for student and worker rights, and this seems to be only the beginning.

  • Berkeley Students and Workers Stay Hungry Together

    As the sun dipped behind California Hall on UC Berkeley's campus last night, a team of hunger strikers, both students and campus workers, emerged with agreements from a recalcitrant administration to evaluate several of their demands. The hugs, shaking hands, smiles, and bread-breaking made it clear that the struggle produced far more than pieces of paper, though.

  • Bus Drivers Win First Contract After Strike and Lockout at University of Alabama
    By Jake DaSilva
    Mar 9 2010 - 6:40pm

    Bus drivers at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa won a first contract after they were locked out last week following a one-day strike. The deal secures a $1.50 an hour raise and employment security, key sticking points that led to the strike. The drivers endured nine months of bargaining where their employer—a contractor—demanded at-will employment and frozen wages.

  • Multi-Union Coalition at UC Strikes Back at Devastating Cuts
    Jack Gerson, Tanya Smith
    Sep 24 2009 - 1:33pm

    A coalition of unions, faculty, and students gave a sharp rebuke to cuts and corporate giveaways at the renowned University of California system on September 24—the first day back for most UC campuses.

  • U-Mass unions demand funded contracts, plan walkouts

    Bryan Pfeifer

    "Fund the contracts or we won't work."

    This militant message from over 200 rank-and-file members from the campus's five unions rang through the Mullins Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst November 6.


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