Bates College staff has made headlines recently with their efforts to unionize a solid majority of their staff, save that of managers, supervisors, tenured/tenure track faculty, and security personnel. With that unionization effort has come a sharp backlash from the Bates administration. Workers recently filed a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) about …
A Message from WesUSE- the Wesleyan Union of Student Employees: At 9 AM on Friday, March 4th, 2022, Wesleyan Residential Life student workers will announce their union and request voluntary recognition from the university. President Roth, the Board of Trustees, and the university have until Friday, March 11th at 5 P.M. to recognize the union, …
Happy Fall and welcome back to campus! Our first meeting of the year will be this Sunday (the 26th) at 1pm in the backyard of 72B Home Ave. It’ll be a casual meet-and-greet where we can get to know each other and chat about labor issues and organizing on campus. Most importantly, we’ll be providing …
Join USLAC and the Wesleyan ACLU for a talk with labor rights activist Christian Smalls! Last March, Chris, a former assistant Amazon warehouse manager, was fired for leading a protest against the unsafe working conditions in a Staten Island Amazon warehouse. Since then, he has founded The Congress of Essential Workers, an organization that fights …
In February 2020, Wesleyan announced that it would be switching from its various employee time-keeping systems to a new consolidated software—Workforce Time—for many of its workers on campus. Concerns over the software company’s geofencing technology and apparent pride in cutting labor costs for employers invoked immediate pushback from numerous workers and students. Physical Plant and …
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We are proud to welcome you to our new website, a one-stop-shop for all things related to labor rights at Wesleyan! As we continue to operate under the strenuous conditions of the pandemic, we are transitioning steadfastly to virtual organizing. More and more has been demanded of workers in terms of hygiene and safety, and …
