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Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

More than 70,000 staff members from 150 universities are set to strike later this month, marking five consecutive years of academic protests in the country.

Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead.

Professors in the Sunshine State may soon face an additional tenure review process under the bill, but not much is yet known about how it will change tenure retention.

Plans to form a union affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America were approved by a vote of 1,785 to 912.

Graduate students planned a three-day-long strike to demand fair pay, union security, and improved protections against sexual harassment and discrimination. If an agreement isn’t met, the union says they may strike longer, potentially disrupting university research.

The faculty voted 1511 to 612 to affiliate with United Steelworkers.

Thanks to administrative shuffling, professor Carl-Wilhelm Vogel remains employed at the University of Hawai‘i despite the removal of his position in the new state budget, but the university’s faculty union says lawmakers might have crossed a legal line.

At universities across the US, student-led efforts to achieve protection for custodial, food service, and other vendors’ employees have been met with mixed levels of success.

The university sent dismissal letters to 54 teaching assistants who have been engaged in a months-long dispute over pay.

The students’ union and the university could not reach an agreement on salary, health benefits, and harassment protections.

After a series of appeals from the university, Missouri courts have ruled for the third time that students have collective bargaining rights.

The National Labor Relations Board has gone back-and-forth on whether graduate students at private universities can form unions three times in the past 19 years.

Observers expect that the National Labor Relations Board will reverse an Obama-era determination that graduate students are employees entitled to form unions.

The university drops its objections and comes to an agreement on who can be included in Academic Researchers United.

More than 2,000 individuals favor the bargaining unit—the first at a private university in the US.

Administration officials contend that research and teaching assistants are students, not workers, and want to take the matter to federal court.

The decision affects about 5,000 graduate students at the university who are eligible to join the union.

Quentin Wheeler’s firing of department chairs earlier this year didn’t sit well with university faculty members.