More than 200 demonstrators gathered in Boston Common at 4:30 p.m. May 1 to commemorate International Workers’ Day, known in the United States as May Day.
Labor union members, political organizers, students and more gathered around Parkman Bandstand for around two hours...
Every evening, Duane Mitchell — a 73-year-old semi-retired software development consultant — opens his Uber app, grabs his keys and walks out of his home in Roslindale to his blue 2015 Subaru Forester. From there, he sets off to drive all across Boston, where he has worked...
After years of legal back and forth, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 23 that the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, was wrong to allow sergeants and sergeant detectives to organize with the Northeastern University Police Department union.
In 2023, the Northeastern...
More than 30 members of Northeastern’s graduate student union picketed outside Fenway Park at the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony May 11, where more than 6,400 undergraduates turned their tassels.
Earlier this week, Northeastern offered the Graduate Employees...
After almost a year and a half of tense negotiations, the graduate student union strongly objected to Northeastern’s final package offer for a contract this month.
The May 5 proposal from the university did not meet the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University-United...
Nearly a year and a half after earning union certification, graduate student workers are still negotiating with the university, leading some union members to weigh a strike.
Following a surge of organizing in 2022 and 2023, Graduate Employees of Northeastern University- United...
Members of the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University rallied on Centennial Common Oct. 2 to mark the one-year anniversary of their union election and 10 months since contract negotiations began. About 100 demonstrators were in attendance throughout the rally, organizing...
In the fourth episode of WRBB News, co-hosts Bela Omoeva and Liza Rosen speak with The News about two recent stories. Staff writer Zoe MacDiarmid maps out how a union representing 330 Northeastern janitors achieved a historic new contract. Deputy campus editor Val O'Neill and...
Every worker needs a union, even if their job is being messy on national television.
Bethenny Frankel, “Skinnygirl” lifestyle mogul, original cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York” and unabashed reality TV pariah, first called for a reality television union...
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 since its certification in September.
The election of a bargaining committee...
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 new tentative union contract, preventing a strike, according to a press release...
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 of bargaining and negotiations. If an agreement is not reached by Nov. 15,...
