In the News

People Are Talking About the Grad Labor Counts! Campaign.  Read/Listen to more about what they’re saying.

For press inquiries, please email gsu@riseup.net with Press Inquiry in the title of the email.

–Wake Up the NLRB (Video on Youtube)

Check out this video of the Grad Labor Counts action in front of the Chicago NLRB office on December 13, 2011.

–Jay Sosa.  “Graduate Students Attempt to Revive “Comatose” NLRB, Demand a Decision on Union Recognition Case.”  December 14, 2011. 

Update:  Click here to see the article cross-linked at alternet.org.

–”Labor Activists Fear NLRB Won’t Restore Graduate Employees’ Union Rights.” The Ticker: The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 7, 2011.

–Andrew Yale.  “Grad Students Fight Sleazy Union Law.”  Brainstorm: The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog.  December 7, 2011.

Professor of English and vocal critic of contingent academic labor, Marc Bousquet, lent his blog column at the Chronicle to the gradlaborcounts! campaign.  Andrew Yale’s guest post puts the gradlaborcounts! in the context of Wisconsin resistance, the occupy movements, and the right-wing attacks on education and labor.

–Interview with GSU Organizer Andrew Yale.  The Rick Smith Show.  November 28, 2011.

Check out Rick Smith’s interview with UChicago Graduate Students United Organizer Andrew Yale.  Rick and Andrew talk about Wisconsin, the NLRB, Grad Labor Counts! and the legacy of Milton Friedman.  For the podcast of the full show that day, click here.

–Scott Jashick. “Running Out of Time.” Inside Higher Ed.  November 28, 2011.

Update: Think Progress, also links to Jashick’s article and other interesting articles in its Morning Econ Roundup.

–Harunobe Coyne. “Graduate students start national petition in push for union.” Chicago Maroon.  November 28, 2011.