…which has granted degrees for 17 years, was largely subsidized by the AFL-CIO. It had about 600 online students last fall, and has about 260 students registered for the spring….
…classroom and online experiences, say writers in the winter issue of the union’s magazine AFT On Campus. Because the classes contain as many as 50,000 students, argues English professor Steven…
…$21 million in back pay because of wage violations, but still got $347.8 million last year to run immigrant-detention centers. The value of federal contracts for services has tripled since…
…and towns, from Niagara Falls to Nassau County are significantly or moderately stressed financially. “This was a ruling that should send chills through every working American,” said Stephen Madarasz of…
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel AFSCME Rips Detroit Pension Ruling After a federal bankruptcy judge ruled Dec. 3 that Detroit could cut pensions to pay off its other…
…strikers. The university is insisting on freezing pay and cutting benefits, saying what it pays service workers is competitive given the labor market. “If their market is McDonalds, that’s not…
…police attacked them with rubber bullets and tear gas. Factory owners had wanted to limit the minimum to $57, claiming that the Western companies they produce clothes for would be…
…of Georgia saying undocumented immigrants are “criminals and they need to be treated as such.” They’re running on the Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision in Atlanta, Denver, and other cities,…
…university’s 1,800 professors, researchers, and librarians voted in 2012 to join United Academics, which is affiliated with both the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors….
…than 80 percent of VW’s factories have such a system, in which the union cedes some rights in exchange for a voice in running the plant, and the company has…
