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Non-tenured part-time and full-time faculty members called off a strike after reaching a tentative agreement with Howard University. The agreement is still subject to a ratification vote by the contingent professors, who are members of SEIU Local 500. Faculty members and students have been holding protests on campus, such as this rally with professor Cyrus Hampton addressing supporters in front of the administration building on Sept. 7. (Courtesy of Chanel Cain/HUNS)
Posted inEducation

Adjunct Faculty Members Across D.C.-Area Colleges Increasingly Unionizing

by Sam P.K. Collins September 14, 2022September 15, 2022

For more than a decade, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500 has helped adjunct faculty and staff members at colleges and universities in the D.C. metropolitan area unionize and successfully negotiate pay raises, health benefits and employment protections. 

Howard University Hospital
Posted inCommunity

Howard University Hospital Staff Threaten Strike Over Low Pay and Staffing Issues

by Jamila Bey April 7, 2022April 8, 2022
Rory Gamble (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inBlack Experience, Stacy M. Brown

Rory Gamble Named First African American President of UAW

by WI Guest Author March 13, 2020December 21, 2021
Richard Binder (right), a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth and Georgetown universities, speaks about Metro's sick-leave policy outside the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 headquarters in D.C. on April 28. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity, William J. Ford

Metro Union Rails Against Agency’s Sick-Leave Policy

by William J. Ford April 28, 2017October 30, 2020
Tamia Small (left), a member of Project Retail, waits to collect a petition being signed by a member of the Amalgamated Transit Union-Local 689 at Metro headquarters in Northwest on Nov. 17. /Photo by William J. Ford
Posted inPrince George's County, William J. Ford

Workers, Union Reps Slam Metro Budget Proposal

by William J. Ford November 25, 2016October 30, 2020
Posted inBusiness

Black Workers Could Save Dying Unions

by Reporter II June 6, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inBusiness

Los Angeles Becomes Latest US City to Favor $15 Minimum Wage

by Washington Informer May 20, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inBusiness

‘Right-to-Work’ Laws Depress Union and Non-Union Wages

by NNPAFreddie April 28, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inBusiness

As the Rich Get Richer, Unions Are Poised for Comeback

by Washington Informer February 20, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inBill Fletcher Jr., Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

Supreme Court Seeks to Gut Labor Unions

by Bill Fletcher Jr. July 7, 2014October 30, 2020

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