UPDATED: AFT, UAW & UE File Charges Over Campus Protest Crackdowns
Unions are protesting actions taken by universities against protesters.
By Peter List, Editor | May 10, 2024
Amid a crackdown on anti-Israel protests on college campuses, unions have begun filing unfair labor practice charges against universities.
Two unions, the Graduate Labor Organization—which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers—and United Auto Workers (Local 872), which represent graduate students at Brown University and the University of Southern California (USC), respectively, filed unfair labor practice charges against each institution, reports the attorneys on the Barnes & Thornburg blog.
“Both organizations claim each institution violated the rights of graduate students, who were also employees, in their response to campus protests,” the attorneys write.
Read the full post at Barnes & Thornburg here.
UPDATE: Add the Cornell Graduate Students United – Union for Everyone (CGSU-UE) to the list of unions having filed charges against university crackdowns on protestors.
In an unfair labor practice charge filed with the NLRB on May 3rd, the CGSU-UE also accuses Cornell University of violating the law after several student protestors were suspended.
The Ithaca Voice sheds more light on the issue here.