Labor & Unionization

State hearing officer says County College of Morris retaliated against five faculty members for their union activity and recommends they get their jobs back.

Sabbaticals, in-person workdays and guaranteed raises are elements of a dispute that’s meant staff members at the American Association of University Professors have been out of contract for a year.

After a historic, triple-union strike ended in the spring, Jonathan Holloway has continued to alienate many faculty members and other campus constituents.

Organizing is surging into private universities, and strikes have increased as well.

The arrests at Harrisburg Area Community College’s Lancaster campus prompted accusations and recrimination. The union said the arrests violated labor law; the college called it an orchestrated “publicity stunt.”