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News & Commentary April 12, 2023
https://onlabor.org/april-12-2023/
By Jacqueline Rayfield
Jacqueline Rayfield is a student at Harvard Law School.
In today’s News and Commentary, Rutgers University academic workers’ strike continues into its third day, Rhode Island School of Design teamsters strike reached its ninth, and the Union of Southern Service Workers alleges discrimination by South Carolina state agency in workplace inspections.
Three unions, including the Rutgers AAUP-AFT full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates; the Rutgers PTLFC-AAUP-AFT part-time lecturers; and AAUP-BHSNJ health sciences school workers, continue their strike on Rutgers’ campus into its third day. In a Monday email, Rutgers’ president, whose salary rose to $1.2 million per year in 2020, threatened legal action to force workers to end their strike. Workers since Monday have halted all work activity other than essential medical care and research.
FULL story at link above.