ON CAMPUS
UAW ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS: UAW academic student employee unions, representing 10,000 employees at the University of California, announced that a strike over unfair labor practices will begin on Friday, March 17 on all eight UC teaching campuses. The unions filed over 40 unfair labor practice charges with the state's public employment relations board . . . UC has been charged with a pattern of unilaterally changing working conditions, bargaining in bad faith, refusing to provide critical information, delaying bargaining, and practicing regressive bargaining. Other charges are that "UC has consistently failed to provide information with respect to workload, health benefits, and fee remissions; has violated the law by making changes to hours, workload, summer programs, and job descriptions without negotiating with the union and hand-picking individuals to bypass the union's elected representatives."
UAW GRADUATE STUDENT UNION http://www.laborcenter.org/agseuaw.
USAS, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: Yup, this is the first SAS sit-in in Canada! The president has left the building... SAS has taken over the U of T president's office. The admin began talking but is refusing to negotiate until SAS leaves his office.
USAS TORONTO http://www.tao.ca/~genny/sas
SLAC, JOHNS HOPKINS: As of 5 PM today, the student labor action committee has agreed to end the sit-in at garland hall. We have won a set of concessions from the administration which will result in concrete wage increases for those Hopkins employees still receiving poverty wages -- especially the 900 workers at the hospital and school of public health. And yet...Johns Hopkins still refuses to enact a true living wage policy.