Tentative agreement at Mt Hood, strike averted: Oregonian (May 12) Chronicle of Higher Education (May 11) Mt. Hood Community College Warns It Will Replace Any Faculty Members Who Strike (Chronicle of Higher Education: April 27, 2011)
Bargaining began on May 18. Look here for updates from the Bargaining Team chair. Bargaining Team 2011: Rebecca Sunderman, Chair, Jose Gomez, Grace Huerta, Gary McNeil, Laurie Meeker, Sarah Ryan, Joli Sandoz.
Students and Faculty Occupy a Building in Protest at California State University East Bay (Political Affairs: April 13, 2011).
The Cronon Affair: Wisconsin Answers (New Yorker: April 3, 2011)
A post from Talking Points Memo \ concerning labor studies faculty targeted in Wisconsin.
Evergreen: 517 of 574 Click image to read article
UFE Steward Lin Nelson reports on Cananea: Anne [Fischel] & I, along with the cadre of labor educators who journeyed to Mexico last May, have completed a report on the conditions there and a call for cross-border solidarity. Our key contribution has been the occupational health and environmental conditions there, as well as some of the photography and analysis. We’d like to share it with UFE sisters and brothers, who were very generous in contributing to Los Mineros (the miners union) when we journeyed there to visit striking families. This project has been done in collaboration with labor educatorsRead More
Two commentaries on state support for higher education nationally: Are ‘charter universities’ the future of state-funded higher ed? (March 18, 2011) And an earlier commentary (March 2010) Taking the State out of State Colleges
