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Graduate student worker Niki Thomas leads a voting party on the day of the union election in late September. Thomas is one of the members of GENU-UAWs recently-announced bargaining committee.

Northeastern graduate student union announces first bargaining committee

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
December 1, 2023

On Nov. 14, the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University, or GENU-UAW, announced the members of its first bargaining committee, the union’s first major step towards bargaining with the university...

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Students in Monrovia, Liberia hold up period products. Love Your Menses collaborated with Mavee Maternal Empowerment Initiative to provide communities with menstrual products. Photo courtesy Ebere Azumah.

‘Flowing through life unapologetically’: Boston-born group Love Your Menses promotes global menstrual equity

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 19, 2023

Growing up in Plateau State, a small city in northern Nigeria, Dr. Ebere Azumah said no one told her what to expect when she got her first menstrual period. A self-directed learner, she took to reading...

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A crowd of union members and supporters gather in Post Office Square in downtown Boston following a tentative new contract agreement. The updated contract included the conversion of 500 part-time jobs to full-time positions. Photo courtesy 32BJ SEIU and Ann Hermes.

Union representing 330 Northeastern janitors tentatively agree to historic new contract, avoiding strike

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 17, 2023

At 4 a.m. Wednesday, a negotiation committee of janitors of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which represents about 330 cleaners at Northeastern, unanimously approved a...

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Tomasa Rodríguez, a janitor at Northeastern since 2000, poses in front of the painting depicting union members with the words of the American Dream. You can see here that were asking for justice just like were asking for now,   Rodríguez said of the painting.

Union representing hundreds of Northeastern janitors pushes for better contract, nearing possible strike

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 12, 2023

Three days before the expiration date of a contract between the union representing 330 cleaners at Northeastern and the Maintenance Contractors of New England, or MCNE, the union wrapped up another week...

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Shriya Thangada and Matt Coughlin receive applause from members of SGA after Coughlin is elected EVP. Thangada served as interim EVP until Coughlin won a majority of votes Nov. 7.

After delays, SGA elects Matt Coughlin as executive vice president

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 8, 2023

On Monday night, the Student Government Association elected former Vice President for Operational Affairs Matt Coughlin, a third-year mechanical engineering major, to fill the role of executive vice...

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Op-ed: Deception, marketing and prestige: Why U.S. News’ rankings are losing influence 

Op-ed: Deception, marketing and prestige: Why U.S. News’ rankings are losing influence 

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 6, 2023

Every year, the college admissions cycle happens like clockwork. Students make one of the most important decisions of their lives so far: where to go for college. To guide them during a notoriously difficult...

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An empty Shabbat table sits in Cabot Quad honoring the 229 hostages taken by Hamas. Posters with names and faces of hostages along with balloons indicating birthdays spent in captivity were attached to chairs.

Jewish and student organizations assemble an empty Shabbat table memorial for 229 Hamas hostages

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
November 1, 2023

A stillness engulfed Cabot Quad, which was covered with an expanse of empty tables and chairs for two and a half hours Friday afternoon as passersby observed a Shabbat memorial organized for Hamas hostages....

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A member of the 32BJ union raises her hand in front of a screen showing Northeastern students support for janitorial workers. Northeasterns facilities were cleaned by members of the 32BJ union. Photo courtesy Ann Hermes.

Union representing hundreds of janitors at Northeastern authorizes strike amid negotiations with maintenance contractors

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
October 31, 2023

About 330 janitorial workers who clean Northeastern facilities could go on strike in mid-November following a Saturday strike authorization vote by members of a union representing thousands of cleaners...

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An empty Shabbat table sits in Cabot Quad honoring the 229 hostages taken by Hamas. Posters with names and faces of hostages were attached to chairs.

[Photo] Developing: Northeastern community responds to Israel-Hamas War

December 3, 2023

An empty Shabbat table sits in Cabot Quad honoring the 229 hostages taken by Hamas. Posters with names and faces of hostages were attached to chairs.

Protestors holding signs in support of the DivestNU campaign cross Forsyth Street. DivestNUs demands included complete divestment from fossil fuels, no new investments and transparency throughout that process.

‘They have to stop making the poison’: DivestNU rallies against Northeastern’s investments in fossil fuels

Zoe MacDiarmid and Sonel Cutler
October 25, 2023

On the heels of Family & Friends weekend Sunday, Oct. 15, more than three dozen members and supporters of DivestNU gathered on Centennial Common to pressure Northeastern’s administration to divest...

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Community members fall silent as Hillel president Julia Gilinsky begins to address the group. Many students wore kippahs or the flag of Israel to show support.

Northeastern community responds after Hamas attacks in Israel

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
October 10, 2023

Hundreds of Northeastern community members gathered Tuesday night on Cabot Quad in solidarity with Israel. Since Hamas’ Saturday assault on Israel, over 1,200 people in Israel and 900 people in Gaza...

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Charlie Sheldon, a third-year environmental studies major, casts his vote during tribal before the second challenge of season 13. Players on the losing team for challenge one had to vote to eliminate a team member.

Could you survive tribal council? A glimpse into Survivor: Northeastern

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
October 4, 2023

Can you trust your friends? Do you really know your allies? Do you know how to survive? These are the questions that contestants have to answer for themselves in the game of “Survivor.” On a chilly...

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Students hold signs promoting the union vote. Graduate students were seeking increased wage and benefits in response to Bostons rising cost of living.

Northeastern graduate student workers overwhelmingly win union certification after 8-year delay

Zoe MacDiarmid and Joseph Brant
September 21, 2023

On Thursday, Sept. 21, graduate student workers at Northeastern officially became a certified union in a vote that has been awaited since 2015. After a surge of organizing in 2022 and 2023, Graduate...

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Messages appear on the ISEC bridge directing graduate workers towards the Robinson Quad, where voting occurs this week. The vote, years in the making, will determine whether graduate workers will be represented by a union.

Voting begins for graduate workers union; pro-union chalking on ISEC bridge erased

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff
September 19, 2023

Polls opened Tuesday, Sept. 19 for the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University, or GENU-UAW, who are voting to be represented by the United Auto Workers union, or UAW, after years of delays in voting...

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