April 2, 2016 Reprinted: http://progressillinois.com Chicago, Illinois – Teachers and staff at Passages Elementary Charter School in the Edgewater neighborhood voted to unionize Thursday March 31st, allowing the Chicago Alliance of Charter
March 29, 2016 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – At 19, NYU sophomore Hannah Fullerton is exactly the kind of young person critics of a $15 an hour minimum
January 30, 2016 By John Quinn, LaborPress Albany Albany, N.Y. – NYSUT is calling for a big increase in state funding for education. The union representing teachers in New York
January 15, 2016 By PSC President Barbara Bowen New York, NY – We welcome and hope to build on the Governor’s acknowledgement of the need to provide funding for retroactive
January 12, 2016 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – City University of New York [CUNY] boosters convinced that Governor Andrew Cuomo is shortchanging working families by not investing more
December 2, 2015 By Steven Wishnia A bill that would require the state government to give the city and state university systems enough aid to cover increases in operating costs
November 5, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Dozens of CUNY faculty and staff working without a contract for the last five years and fed up with chronic underfunding,
October 29, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Week two of LaborPress’ all-new Radio Show/Podcast finds PSC-CUNY President Barbara Bowen in the studio for a very frank discussion about
October 21, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – This week, public university faculty on both coasts are seriously contemplating devastating strike actions — and the increasing “de-professionalization” of higher learning
October 8, 2015 By Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel The National Collegiate Athletic Association may prohibit colleges from paying athletes a share of they money they gain from using the
