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The UAW reports that graduate employees have reached an “unprecedented agreement with New York University in which the administration will remain neutral and respect the results of an election for more than 1,200 GAs, TAs and RAs [graduate assistants, teaching assistants and resident assistants] to vote on union representation." The election is expected to take place Dec. 10 and 11.
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. Check out the 22 things after the jump.
Flight delays and cancellations piled up Wednesday at some of the busiest airports, and a band of rain from Maine to the Carolinas soaked Americans trying to get home on the busiest travel day of the year.
After Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey, the United Steelworkers (USW) recognized a gap in the availability of Spanish-speaking Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) outreach trainers in the two storm-ravaged states. USW obtained funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to launch a new program through their Tony Mazzocchi Center to remedy the problem.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes Tuesday night after a chemical spill in a small Ohio city, according to police.
Two storm systems that had been expected to bring ice, snow and high winds to the Northeast on the busiest travel day of the year failed to merge on Wednesday, offering a glimmer of hope to millions hoping to make it home for Thanksgiving.
The NSA targeted suspected Muslim radicals by gathering evidence of visits to pornographic sites in order to harm their reputation, said a report Wednesday based on a document provided by leaker Edward Snowden.
A man who claimed he was owed $15,000 in settlements after tripping on a banana peel inside a D.C. Metro elevator is now facing fraud charges.
It bears an aura of inevitability, the state-by-state fall of marijuana prohibition, starting with January’s debut of commercial sales in Colorado and Washington state.
When the ball drops this New Year’s Eve, America’s first aboveboard cannabis markets will rise in Colorado and Washington. Uruguay is expected to follow as the first country to legalize the one-time devil weed.
