Labor News

State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin, a Montgomery County, Md., legislator and a Democrat, is introducing a bill today that would permit graduate students and adjunct faculty members at Maryland’s public universities to unionize, The Washington Post reports.
Faculty members and administrators at St. Thomas University, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, have agreed to submit to binding arbitration, ending the strike that began over Christmas break, Karen Birchard writes on the News Blog. Classes will resume tomorrow.
Meanwhile, contract talks between professors and administrators at the University of New Hampshire have stalled for the second time, Seacoastonline.com reports.