August 26, 2015
College athletes have long been denied a real voice in a multi-billion dollar industry built upon their performance. That’s why it was a potential game-changer when Northwestern University scholarship football players came together to demand a union in 2014. The school’s administration argued that the players were students that had… Read More»
Tags: College athletics players association, National Labor Relations Board, NCAA, NLRB, Northwestern University, student athletes
February 26, 2015
Last week, undergraduate students employed as “peer mentors” at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst won the right to form a union. The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, which oversees labor disputes in the state, ruled in favor of the university employees after UMass-Amherst blocked their petition for an election earlier… Read More»
Tags: Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, Jenna Grady, Northwestern University, Student Labor Action Project, UAW Local 2322, UMass-Amherst, unionbusting, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
