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Two Boston Starbucks unionize, Statehouse senate staff edge closer to recognition

Bella Ramirez April 14, 2022
Two Boston Starbucks unionize while the Statehouse senate staff seeks voluntary recognition from the Senate President.
Some Boston University library employees will work partially in person during the Spring semester because their requests for full workplace accommodations were denied. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

BU library staff denied full workplace accommodations for Spring

Daily Free Press Staff December 17, 2020
Multiple BU library staff members have been denied full workplace accommodations and are required to work in person for a certain number of hours per week.
Senior Lecturer Bill Marx and Professor Katherine Lincoln-Shultz, of the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, explain future prospects of the newly passed BU unionization vote. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU full-time, salaried instructors, lecturers voted to unionize by a 4-to-1 margin

Meagan Schwarz April 7, 2016

Boston University full-time and salaried instructors and lecturers voted to unionize with the Service Employees International Union Local 509 following a final ballot count Wednesday. The win merged...

Boston University faculty members gathered Wednesday at the Tsai Performance Center for the Spring 2016 Faculty Assembly and listened to reports from BU President Robert Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison and Faculty Council Chair Stephen Brady. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Faculty Assembly focuses on unionization, admissions, task force progress

Meagan Schwarz March 24, 2016

Boston University President Robert Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison and Faculty Council Chair Stephen Brady addressed current initiatives and the state of undergraduate education Wednesday at...

Full-time lecturers and instructors at BU will vote to unionize using mail-in ballots sent Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board. GRAPHIC BY RACHEL CHMIELINKSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU instructors, lecturers move forward with efforts to unionize

Weihua Li March 23, 2016

Full-time and salaried Boston University instructors and lecturers will receive mail-in ballots from the National Labor Relations Board to vote and unionize with the Service Employees International...

Massachusetts adjunct professors gather to vote about unionization at the National Labor Relations Board in Boston. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Full-time, salaried BU lecturers and instructors file union election

Sekar Krisnauli March 8, 2016

  Full-time and salaried lecturers and instructors at Boston University filed a petition Friday to join Faculty Forward, a sector of the Service Employee International Union Local 509. The...

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