Ethan Schenker is a senior staff writer covering staff and student labor. He is from Bethesda, MD, and plans to study International and Public Affairs and Economics. In his free time, he enjoys playing piano and clicking on New York Times notifications.
When Brown reached a three-year contract with Teaching Assistant Labor Organization in late October, the union’s members became the first undergraduate student workers to secure a long term contract with the University.
“Over the past several semesters, we have experienced an increasing demand for classroom space across all our curricular endeavors,” Provost Francis Doyle wrote in September. This demand has “placed considerable strain on our classroom facilities,” Doyle said.
Residents and fellows at four Brown-affiliated hospitals filed to unionize Friday. It’s the group’s first steps to holding elections that, if successful, would result in 950 physicians joining thousands of other unionized doctors nationwide.
Nine hundred and fifty medical residents and fellows at four hospitals affiliated with Brown’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine are seeking union representation, according to public filings with the National Labor Relations Board.
After seven months of bargaining with private shuttle operator Transdev, shuttle drivers at Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Rhode Island College could go on strike next week if an agreement is not reached by their next bargaining session on Nov. 12.
The Teaching Assistant Labor Organization has ratified its first long-term contract with the University, the union wrote in an email to members Wednesday afternoon.
At a growing number of institutions, including Brown, student labor organizations allege that administrators’ crackdowns on their pro-Palestine demonstrations violate federal labor law that protects certain types of work-related protest activity.
Brown's Advisory Committee on University Resources Management is closer than ever to releasing its public recommendation on whether the University should divest from 10 companies affiliated with the Israeli military. To make this recommendation, the committee examined two student proposals: Brown Divest ...
Brown faced the most new federal unfair labor practice charges in the Ivy League over the past year, according to a Herald analysis of National Labor Relations Board data.
Organizers for four campus labor organizations — the Labor Organization of Community Coordinators, Third World Labor Organization, Brown Postdoc Labor Organization and Teaching Assistant Labor Organization — spent their summers negotiating new collective bargaining agreements with the University. ...
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