Ethan Schenker is a Senior Staff Writer covering staff and student labor. He is from Bethesda, MD, and plans to study International and Public Affairs and Economics. In his free time, he enjoys playing piano and clicking on New York Times notifications.
At the encampment on the Main Green Thursday afternoon, graduate student workers rallied at a demonstration organized by the Graduate Labor Organization to protest recent updates to Brown鈥檚 communications around activism.
Following an uptick in sixth-year PhD students reporting that their requests for a yearlong COVID-related funding extension had been partially denied by the University, Graduate Labor Organization leaders are accusing the University of violating 鈥渢he spirit鈥� of a clause in a 2023 side letter to ...
Students, on-campus labor organizers and regional labor union representatives convened on Saturday for the Student Labor Alliance鈥檚 second annual State of the Unions meeting.
Members of the climate advocacy group Sunrise Brown reiterated calls for the University to cut social and financial ties with the fossil fuel industry at a Wednesday teach-in.
On March 12, the Graduate Labor Organization filed a federal Unfair Labor Practices complaint, alleging that the University made a 鈥渞etaliatory threat鈥� of discipline against the union鈥檚 members.
As part of an ongoing review of a proposal calling on the University to cut financial and social ties with the fossil fuel industry, the Advisory Committee on University Resource Management met on Thursday to discuss the influence of corporate funding on academic freedom.
The University added a 鈥渇ossil-free鈥� mutual fund option to faculty and staff retirement plans in late December, Benefits Operations Director Kimberly Almeida wrote in an email to The Herald.
The University officially recognized the Third World Labor Organization, according to a Wednesday TWLO Instagram post. The union represents 53 student workers at the Brown Center for Students of Color.
The University is prepared to recognize the Third World Labor Organization 鈥� a union representing student workers at the Brown Center for Students of Color 鈥� pending the review of signed union authorization cards demonstrating majority support among student employees, the organization announced ...
The Graduate Labor Organization announced that it will spend the spring demanding that the University divest from companies facilitating the Israel-Palestine war in an Instagram post on Feb. 5.
