Articles tagged as: unions
August 29, 2022
Feds allege Starbucks withheld benefits to 'discourage' Clarksville, other states' union workers
National Labor Relations Board Seattle regional office officials allege the company withheld benefits from the Clarksville store and 261 other locations that had voted to unionize or were considering it across the country.
Read MoreJune 6, 2022
IU Trustees in letter to faculty: no recognition of grad student union
The IU Board of Trustees said it won’t recognize the graduate student union requested by striking Student Academic Appointees.
Read MoreJune 2, 2022
Clarksville Starbucks files to unionize, first to do so in Indiana
Employees at a Starbucks in Clarksville have filed to unionize, making the store the first in the state to do so.
Read MoreApril 28, 2022
Graduate student government votes 'no confidence' in IU provost
Indiana University graduate student leaders say they've lost confidence in newly appointed Provost Rahul Shrivastav.
Read MoreApril 22, 2022
Indiana University faculty brace for graduate worker firings after meetings with administration
Half a dozen faculty at Indiana University said they're bracing for striking graduate student workers to lose their positions. They said their concerns stem from information they've learned at closed-door meetings with the Provost and other campus administrators.
Read MoreApril 15, 2022
Indiana University graduate workers go on strike for union recognition
Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana Universitys Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school says it has no intention of bargaining with the group and no legal obligation to do so.
Read MoreApril 13, 2022
Seeking union recognition, Indiana University graduate student workers begin strike
Indiana University graduate workers in Bloomington are on strike starting Wednesday in search of union recognition. Due to potentially dangerous weather conditions, several in-person events including picketing and a student walkout were postponed to Thursday.
Read MoreMarch 28, 2022
Lawmakers tweak teacher union law in an attempt to skirt likely free speech violation
Indiana lawmakers are continuing an effort to change how teachers pay union dues through paycheck deductions with a new law. It tweaks previous legislation that a federal judge said likely violated the constitution.
Read MoreFebruary 3, 2022
Indiana University rejects graduate student worker request to hold union election
Indiana University formally denied a request from roughly 1,600 graduate workers to hold a union election, contending they're primarily students, not staff.
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2022
Indiana union membership grew in 2021, despite a national decline
The number of Hoosiers who are members of labor unions rose significantly in 2021, reversing a four-year-long decline in membership. That’s even while union membership declined nationally.
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