National Center for Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed
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The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions is a labor-management research center at Hunter College. We conduct research, organize conferences, and publish scholarship.
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Register now for our March 22-24, 2026 conference in NYC. @wesleyan_u Michael Roth will be keynote speaker. Registration, panel and, speaker info available here: www.hunter.cuny.edu/national-cen...
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Register now for our March 22-24, 2026 conference in NYC. @wesleyan_u Michael Roth will be keynote speaker. Registration, panel and, speaker info available here: www.hunter.cuny.edu/national-cen...
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Berkeley Law Dean Urges Supreme Court to Be ‘Guardrail of Our Democracy’
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Berkeley Law Dean Urges SCOTUS to Be “Guardrail” for Democracy
Erwin Chemerinsky capped this week’s APLU conference by explaining higher ed’s financial vulnerabilities that the Trump administration is exploiting and arguing that the high court needs to “check” th...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Berkeley Law Dean Urges Supreme Court to Be ‘Guardrail of Our Democracy’
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The National Center has issued our October 2025 newsletter that includes details about our contract research site and confirmed speakers and panels for our March 22-24 2026 annual conference: myemail.constantcontact.com/October-2025...
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The National Center has issued our October 2025 newsletter that includes details about our contract research site and confirmed speakers and panels for our March 22-24 2026 annual conference: myemail.constantcontact.com/October-2025...
Our Executive Director Bill.Herbert is quoted in this article about legal objections made by LMU and USC to.their contingent faculty unionizing
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October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Our Executive Director Bill.Herbert is quoted in this article about legal objections made by LMU and USC to.their contingent faculty unionizing
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"It raises questions as to the actual motivations [of LMU]. Is it a sincere belief unionization will interfere with the religious education of the school? Or is it to avoid having to engage in collective bargaining?” www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Loyola Marymount abruptly rescinds recognition of faculty union, claiming religious exemption
Loyola Marymount University said it could end its engagement with the union by invoking its “constitutionally protected religious exemption” from the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"It raises questions as to the actual motivations [of LMU]. Is it a sincere belief unionization will interfere with the religious education of the school? Or is it to avoid having to engage in collective bargaining?” www.latimes.com/business/sto...
New September 26 book launch event for Emory law professor Deepa Das Acevedo's new book The War on Tenure.
September 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New September 26 book launch event for Emory law professor Deepa Das Acevedo's new book The War on Tenure.
Have collective bargaining data a click away by registering and contributing for our Contract Research Site: webforms.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep/vie... Access begins on October 1 for registrants to this contribution-based platform.
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Have collective bargaining data a click away by registering and contributing for our Contract Research Site: webforms.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep/vie... Access begins on October 1 for registrants to this contribution-based platform.
New: the Beloit Student Workers Union, a union of undergraduates at Beloit College in Wisconsin, recently ratified its first collective bargaining agreement. The union was organized under a neutrality agreement with the college: bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wrex.com/con...
September 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New: the Beloit Student Workers Union, a union of undergraduates at Beloit College in Wisconsin, recently ratified its first collective bargaining agreement. The union was organized under a neutrality agreement with the college: bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wrex.com/con...
Announcing a new contract research site an annual contribution-based platform with a search engine to research hundreds of higher ed contracts.
This unique site will be valuable to negotiators, union representatives, administrators, and law firms.
Register and contribute today!
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This unique site will be valuable to negotiators, union representatives, administrators, and law firms.
Register and contribute today!
conta.cc/4lMDfN2
Announcing New Contract Research Site
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September 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Announcing a new contract research site an annual contribution-based platform with a search engine to research hundreds of higher ed contracts.
This unique site will be valuable to negotiators, union representatives, administrators, and law firms.
Register and contribute today!
conta.cc/4lMDfN2
This unique site will be valuable to negotiators, union representatives, administrators, and law firms.
Register and contribute today!
conta.cc/4lMDfN2
Important article in The American Prospect about state initiatives to grant and protect labor protections for graduate students and others prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Organized Labor Pushes Blue States to Protect Private University Student Workers
Without a quorum at the NLRB, state legislation that codifies collective bargaining for private-sector employees may be key to preserving workers’ rights.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Important article in The American Prospect about state initiatives to grant and protect labor protections for graduate students and others prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
1. New: Northwestern University post-docs voted 515-13 in favor of representation by UE Union/Northwestern University Postdoc Union (NUPU-UE), according to yesterday's tally of ballots by the NLRB. The result is a continuation in the massive growth of post-doc unionization.
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
1. New: Northwestern University post-docs voted 515-13 in favor of representation by UE Union/Northwestern University Postdoc Union (NUPU-UE), according to yesterday's tally of ballots by the NLRB. The result is a continuation in the massive growth of post-doc unionization.
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Graduate student unions are winning big. But their fight is far from over. Learn more about why graduate workers are organizing and how they are navigating the corporatization of higher education by reading Dane Gambrell's @poweratwork.bsky.social article: poweratwork.us/grad-student...
August 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Graduate student unions are winning big. But their fight is far from over. Learn more about why graduate workers are organizing and how they are navigating the corporatization of higher education by reading Dane Gambrell's @poweratwork.bsky.social article: poweratwork.us/grad-student...
The National Center's 53rd annual national conference will take place on March 22-24, 2026 in NYC. Support our research and the conference by becoming a sponsor s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/u... or by buying an ad in the conference program: s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/u....
August 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The National Center's 53rd annual national conference will take place on March 22-24, 2026 in NYC. Support our research and the conference by becoming a sponsor s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/u... or by buying an ad in the conference program: s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/u....
New: The National Center's July/August newsletter is now available: conta.cc/45CmOhb It includes updates and information for submitting 2026 conference proposals, which are due no later than August 29.
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New: The National Center's July/August newsletter is now available: conta.cc/45CmOhb It includes updates and information for submitting 2026 conference proposals, which are due no later than August 29.
A quantative research article by National Center scholars is cited in the current issue of Nature magazine in an article on postdoc unionization at the University of Michigan
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July 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A quantative research article by National Center scholars is cited in the current issue of Nature magazine in an article on postdoc unionization at the University of Michigan
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New: last week Oregon Governor Kotek signed into law a bill prohibiting the false impersonation of a union representative w/intent to undermine, interfere or negatively impact a labor organization: legiscan.com/OR/text/HB37.... Example of state law building up, while federal labor law under attack.
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
New: last week Oregon Governor Kotek signed into law a bill prohibiting the false impersonation of a union representative w/intent to undermine, interfere or negatively impact a labor organization: legiscan.com/OR/text/HB37.... Example of state law building up, while federal labor law under attack.
New: NY legislators are being proactive with a bill to expand the State Employment Relations Act for when NLRB declines jurisdiction, decides issue is outside NLRA coverage, lacks a quorum or if the NLRA is repealed or narrowed or preemption ruled inapplicable: legiscan.com/NY/text/S079....
June 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New: NY legislators are being proactive with a bill to expand the State Employment Relations Act for when NLRB declines jurisdiction, decides issue is outside NLRA coverage, lacks a quorum or if the NLRA is repealed or narrowed or preemption ruled inapplicable: legiscan.com/NY/text/S079....
Latest: Postdocs at Johns Hopkins University voted 560-17 in favor of representation by Postdoctoral Researchers Organized – UAW, according to NLRB tally of ballots on June 11, 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Latest: Postdocs at Johns Hopkins University voted 560-17 in favor of representation by Postdoctoral Researchers Organized – UAW, according to NLRB tally of ballots on June 11, 2025.
Our Executive Director Bill Herbert co-edited the recently released treatise Lefkowitz on Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, Fifth Edition. nysba.org/products/lef...
Lefkowitz on Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, 5th ed. (Print Edition) – New York State Bar Association
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June 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our Executive Director Bill Herbert co-edited the recently released treatise Lefkowitz on Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, Fifth Edition. nysba.org/products/lef...
New: Adjunct faculty at Simmons University in Massachusetts voted 204-15, in a bargaining unit of 668, in favor of representation by @seiu509.bsky.social, according to a June 2 NLRB tally of ballots.
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New: Adjunct faculty at Simmons University in Massachusetts voted 204-15, in a bargaining unit of 668, in favor of representation by @seiu509.bsky.social, according to a June 2 NLRB tally of ballots.
New: NEA-NM has a petition pending with the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board seeking to represent a unit of 108 full-time faculty at Western New Mexico University.
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New: NEA-NM has a petition pending with the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board seeking to represent a unit of 108 full-time faculty at Western New Mexico University.
Our Executive Director Bill Herbert has been named a 2025 Trailblazers in Higher Education by City & State New York along with leaders, scholars, and advocates in higher ed: www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...
May 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our Executive Director Bill Herbert has been named a 2025 Trailblazers in Higher Education by City & State New York along with leaders, scholars, and advocates in higher ed: www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...
New: The faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City voted 568-167 in favor of representation by SVA Faculty United-UAW, according to the tally of ballots issued yesterday by the NLRB.
May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New: The faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City voted 568-167 in favor of representation by SVA Faculty United-UAW, according to the tally of ballots issued yesterday by the NLRB.