Sentences with word «unionization»

Keep in mind Cuomo's statement about conservatives not being welcome in New York has supported the so called safe back his support of forced unionization of farm labor and these are things that are across America aren't necessarily a broad appeal.

The past decade has seen great strides in unionization of part - time (aka Sessional or Contract Academic Staff) university teachers.

Indeed, compared with a previous unionization effort in 2006, which encountered opposition and ended with the withdrawal of the union's petition, «Everything has gone fairly smoothly,» says Matthew O'Connor, a bioengineering postdoc and chief union organizer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who also serves as president of Berkeley's postdoctoral scholars association.

Hoxby examined how changes in unionization rates among teachers driven by DTB law passage affects high school dropout rates.

Given the anti-union sentiment among conservatives, who make up a majority of college football fans, it's unlikely we'll see many states push for unionization of college athletes.

This Ottawa Citizen article on the appointment of Kevin Whitaker to review the Ontario ban on unionization of part - time College workers went out on the CAUT Contract Academic Staff wire today.

Three years ago, when teachers at Brighton's Conservatory Lab Charter School formed a union, the elementary school quickly became a poster child for the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts, the state's second - largest teachers union, which had launched a charter - school unionization campaign.

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«We have the highest level of teacher unionization in the world, but their focus is on rights, not responsibilities,» Mamphela Ramphele, former vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town, said in a recent speech.

He did, however, mention a case of administrative retaliation against a faculty member who actively supported a student unionization drive.

She found that increased unionization increases high school dropout.

Significantly for postdocs, however, natural science faculty are «less likely to support unionization in general than the faculty in the humanities and social sciences,» said the study's author, Gordon Hewitt, director of institutional research at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in an interview with Next Wave.

Groups like «Fight for $ 15» (in favor of a $ 15 minimum wage) are inseparable from unionization efforts.

The United Teachers of New Orleans is waiting for the National Labor Relations Board to decide whether it will hold a May 17 unionization election at Lusher Charter School, attorney Louis Robein said Wednesday.

For example, the graduate student unionization efforts underway at a number of private universities rely on the National Labor Relations Board's August 2016 ruling that graduate research and teaching assistants are employees.

This suggests that the high unionization rate among teachers plays an important role in their employers» higher average cost.

«I'm not against unionization in general,» Lee says.

Postdoc Unionization Drive Reaches a Climax in California 1 September 2006 As pro- and antiunion sides exchange accusations of unfairness, California's state labor board weighs the union's petition.

Labor laws effectively encouraged unionization from the mid-1930s until the Reagan years, the welfare state emerged alongside a fairly progressive tax code, and government played a major role in developing critical new technologies such as modern airplanes and the computer.

With unionization of the teaching profession in Korea, Kim wonders whether the current model can be sustained.

that contains some longed - for hard data on charter school unionization rates, where those schools are located, and why they are unionized — whether by law or by teacher action.

Local 2865, however, is «considering» moving toward unionization of students employed in on - campus research.

Based on true events, Matewan tells the tale of a coal workers strike and unionization attempt in a small town in West Virginia in 1920.

But instead of asking why that is, and exploring why teachers compete for charter jobs with at - will agreements or one - year contracts, they write of union - busting tactics at several charters, see low rates of unionization as a «cause for concern,» and wind up recommending that state laws provide an automatic union vote in the first year of each charter.

Alliance College - Ready Public Charter Schools said today the group violated no laws over unionization efforts and asserted that some Alliance teachers «feel harassed by UTLA's communications tactics.»

Opponents, however, are urging postdocs who have already given the union their signed consent to fight unionization by formally withdrawing their signatures.

William Morales, a teacher at Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High School, told LA School Report, ``... there has been a lopsided discussion about unionization at Alliance schools.

Second, we must lead the struggle for a sustainable public education system by holding all publicly - funded schools, district and charter, to common sense standards, like equity and access for all students, transparency in all budgets, joint decision - making, and unionization rights for all workers.

Judge Hellerstein wrote that the legislative history demonstrated that the «central purpose» of the law, known as Local Law 62 or the Car Wash Accountability Act, was to illegally promote unionization.

(Ironically, having an exact count made it possible for UC postdocs to mount a successful unionization campaign.

We discuss the move toward unionization among adjuncts, and what that might mean for professors and students.

«On one level the faculty did express concern that, even though [unionization] doesn't interfere with the relationship, it does cost more money [and] there's more bureaucracy involved with it.

The idea of athletics and education being intertwined into one scholastic experience was brought up at the Northwestern unionization hearing at length, too.

«Our mission is to provide multiple access points for customers to save money,» said company president and CEO Dirk Van den Berghe, in a rather benign assessment of Walmart's mission to squeeze suppliers and discourage unionization at all costs.

Ginger, There is a lot of debate over the reasons for the declining unionization rate in North America, but I'd hypothesize that at least part of it is that labour is increasingly as mobile as capital.

One of the major mixed - martial arts promoters, UFC, has common ownership with a casino chain in Las Vegas that has resisted unionization.

Faculty members generally «don't feel that [unionization] impairs their educational relationship,» says the author of an influential and widely cited study of faculty attitudes on five campuses with graduate unions.

If unionization doesn't dramatically affect student achievement one way or the other, does it at least attract more qualified teachers or increase retention?

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly 15 years of opposing unionization for teaching assistants, the University of California (UC) administration agreed earlier this month that it will recognize and bargain with a union of TAs at UCLA.

But unlike the struggles of their grandparents» day, the current unionization dispute does not pit ragged men and women freezing on picket lines against bosses threatening workers and their children with starvation if the workers dare to organize.

UTLA took a number of complaints to the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), claiming that Alliance leaders were illegally blocking unionization efforts, at Alliance has lost some rulings before PERB and a state judge, who issued a temporary restraining order against Alliance.

«At 5.5 percent, Virginia has the fifth lowest unionization rate in the country.»

The undiluted union wish - list — including forced unionization of charter teachers — is contained in a bill sponsored by Harlem Sen. Bill Perkins, which comes before the Senate's Education Committee today.

Those who support unionization say it would improve adjunct faculty members» standard of living, provide a more stable environment for students, and increase retention and graduation rates.

It Ain't Over Till It's Over 1 December 2006 A bureaucratic snag — not postdoc resistance — has stalled a California unionization drive.

That decision declared graduate student assistants at private universities ineligible for unionization because, the board ruled, they are primarily students rather than workers.