BU’s current policies impose a mental burden for graduate student workers, who are approaching their third week of striking for higher wages, better benefits and university acknowledgement.
As a result of the BUGWU strike, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences suggested the use of generative AI tools to replace striking graduate students in an email sent to colleague's this week. Students, professors and graduate workers express discontent with the idea.
Boston University Student Government discussed elections and listened to a presentation regarding the difficulties experiences by BU graduate student workers.
Resident life workers, graduate student workers and adjunct faculty held a joint union rally on Oct. 20 following recently ratified bargaining demands.
Three BU unions — BU ResLife Union, BU Graduate Workers Union and BU Part-Time Faculty — rallied at the George Sherman Union on Oct. 20 about their recent ratified bargaining demands and marched to 1 Silber Way to deliver their demands to University administrators.
Boston University residential life workforce announced their formation of a union at a rally in front of the George Sherman Union on Wednesday afternoon.
Boston University Graduate Workers Union announced they rejected the University’s proposal of voluntarily recognizing a unit that includes PhD candidates but excludes non-PhD graduate students and “non-service” PhD workers.
We can make Boston University an even better school by making sure that educators have what they need to make every student’s learning experience exceptional, and by making sure that educators feel supported, respected and paid equitably.
After over a year of negotiations and threats of a lecturers’ strike, the Boston University administration reached their first-ever agreement with about 250 members of SEIU Local 509 on Friday.
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