Georgetown 39 s Kalmanovitz Center has performed an extensive review of the union campaign among adjunct faculty there The report covers the entire process from the first discussions among the instructors about their conditions to the ratification of a first contract The authors found that the u
Clayton Sinyai
Clayton Sinyai is a trade union activist and the author of Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement (Cornell, 2006). He is a member of the Catholic Labor Network, the American affiliate of the World Movement of Christian Workers. He can be reached at clayton@catholiclabor.org.
Trinity Washington University Adjunct Faculty Vote for Union
Service Employees International Union Local 500 which represents adjunct faculty at Georgetown University reports that Trinity Washington University adjuncts have now chosen union representation 74 voting yes 54 voting no They join a wave of non-tenured university and college instructors acros
Illinois House Acts to Defend Domestic Workers
Housekeepers and childcare workers were excluded from 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
UAW Proposes “Works Council” for Tennessee Volkswagen Workers
DETERMINED TO PURSUE CO-DETERMINATION In an update on a storyline central to Thomas Geoghegan rsquo s recent book Only One Thing Can Save Us see America review here the United Auto Workers union has presented a draft proposal for a German-style works council for Volkswagen rsquo s Chattanooga pl
Fortune Magazine: Employers getting off too easy when workers are hurt or killed
Employers responsible for a fatal accident paid a median penalty of only $5,050.
Bishops call for Budget that Protects “The Least of These”
Bishops concerned over cuts to programs that serve the poor and vulnerable.
What Does Catholic Social Teaching Say About “Right-to-work” Laws?
Popes since Leo XIII have supported workers’ associations.
Which Side Are We On?: Catholic teachers and the right to unionize
Catholic social teaching on the rights of workers to organize is clear and consistent. “The repeated calls issued within the church’s social doctrine, beginning with ‘Rerum Novarum,’ for the promotion of workers’ associations that can defend their rights,” writes
National Labor Relations Board seeks to reconcile religious freedom and labor rights
Board made considerable effort to vindicate just demands of both universities and adjuncts
