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Yale: Negotiate with Your Graduate Teachers
UNITE HERE Local 33
In February, the graduate teachers voted to be represented by UNITE HERE. But Yale University has refused to negotiate with them, instead delaying the process through legal means. If they stall long enough, more appointees by President Donald Trump will be seated at the National Labor Relations Board. How quickly do you think those appointees would vote to roll back the rights of graduate workers?
Graduate teachers are teachers. Once they walk into the classroom, their job becomes indistinguishable from that of a tenured faculty member. When they counsel students outside of class, they aren't giving them only part-time counseling. When they spend endless hours grading papers and tests, their work benefits the university and helps create the environment that attracts students and investors in the school.
Eight UNITE HERE Local 33 members are fasting to protest the university's refusal to bargain with graduate teachers. The teachers also have marched, picketed and committed acts of civil disobedience. They've done all this because they want a seat at the table,...
Georgia has scheduled the execution for Tuesday evening.
Georgia has scheduled the execution for Tuesday evening.
Federal judges on Monday peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the travel ban discriminates against Muslims.
Federal judges on Monday peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the travel ban discriminates against Muslims.
U.S. officials believe Bashar al-Assad's regime has installed a installed a crematorium in the Saydnaya prison complex just outside of Damascus
Celebrating AAPI Resistance in the Labor Movement
AFL-CIO
As we look back at the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance’s first action at the founding convention to march for justice after the beating of Rodney King 25 years ago, we’re proud of our deep roots of solidarity and resistance. Today, with millions of people mobilizing in marches and protests across the nation, from the Women’s March to the People’s Climate March, we are living in a time where we cannot stand silent when Muslim, immigrant, refugee, women and LGBTQ communities are constantly under attack. As a refugee from Ethiopia and an immigrant from the Philippines — and both as parents — we take these attacks personal and are concerned about the type of world our own children are growing up in.
As unfortunate as it is to say, the Asian American and Pacific Islander community is no stranger to oppression. We have seen firsthand how xenophobia allowed the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. We have felt the pain of families torn apart with the increased deportations and criminalization of Southeast Asian...
The firm was accused of using its White House ties to sell a development project to foreign investors.
New legislation proposed by a Wisconsin lawmaker would classify stealthing — the act of removing a condom during intercourse without consent — as sexual assault.
U.S. officials believe Bashar al-Assad's regime has installed a installed a crematorium in the Saydnaya prison complex just outside of Damascus
