Troublemakers Blog
November 04, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Sheryl Sandberg urges women to lean in at work, but Newark teachers felt more "leaned on" when Facebook officers came to town with $100 million to push merit pay.
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November 01, 2013 /
Contingent faculty, now the majority, are almost always paid on a discounted secondary pay scale. But a college in British Columbia shows another way is possible.
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October 29, 2013 /
The two big commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington this August just asked us to honor a well-attended march where great speeches were given. The march represented much more, which has been written out of history.
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October 22, 2013 /
Though the AFL-CIO Convention’s focus on new alliances was healthy, the Convention was unwilling to grapple with fundamentals that are crucial to its long-term viability.
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October 15, 2013 / Alexandra Bradbury
Seriously, we’re as frustrated as you are—and so are postal workers. »
October 10, 2013 /
Local presidents' dissatisfaction with the Transport Workers Union jelled into an opposition slate that came from within the union’s administration.
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October 09, 2013 /
Teachers at the University of Oregon approved by 99 percent a first contract yesterday, the fruits of solidarity between tenure-track and contingent faculty that began six years ago.
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October 08, 2013 / Samantha Winslow
Eighty activists, including members of the Steelworkers, Transit Union (ATU), United Electrical Workers (UE), Service Employees, and AFSCME, gathered Saturday for a day of trainings, workshops, and discussions: the Pittsburgh Troublemakers School. »
October 07, 2013 /
Is a union too high a goal for fast food workers? Part-timers at the Oregon Zoo showed it could be done.
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October 04, 2013 /
Not only are some federal employees working without knowing whether we’ll be paid, we’re also doing it without our usual union representation on the job.
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