Unions

Western Michigan University Board of Trustees received a briefing on the university’s veteran-friendly track record, met the new Western Student Association President and listened to teaching assistant woes at a board meeting on Thursday, April 19.

Union-sponsored rallies are being held at eight college campuses around New Jersey this week.

A state labor relations panel will hold off on dealing with a controversial move to unionize university research assistants while the courts deal with a suit brought by Democrats dealing with a related issue.

UW-Madison officials have decided to open human resources meetings to the public after a group of faculty and staff complained that new work rules for the university's 17,000 employees were being discussed in private.

He sides with a police union only in granting a preliminary injunction to withhold the names of all but two officers involved in the Occupy-related incident last fall.

A bill that would block unionization efforts by graduate student research assistants at the University of Michigan or other public universities is headed to Gov. Rick Snyder.

In the midst of a contract fight, the statewide union representing California State University professors will vote this spring on whether to impose a "rolling" strike at all 23 campuses.

Graduate student research assistants would be unable to join unions under a bill that cleared the state Senate Wednesday backed by the Republican majority.

As the court injunction keeping Central Michigan University professors from striking expires, Wednesday, the faculty and administrators have a court hearing Thursday morning.

The University of Vermont and the faculty union have reached an agreement on a new contract, UVM announced Wednesday.