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Janet Bailey, part-time-faculty union member of Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Part-time faculty, consisting of adjuncts, lecturers and instructors, are spreading awareness about their current job instability, low wages and lack of institutional support. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘They don’t know who we are’: Part-time faculty union advocates for better treatment from BU

Karyna Cheung February 9, 2024
Part-time faculty consists of adjuncts, lecturers and instructors. Collectively, part-time faculty unionized in 2015 and are still raising awareness about their current job instability, low wages and lack of institutional support as they feel that BU is unresponsive to their needs.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

The United States first union of working women | Bad Business

Nathan Metcalf November 18, 2022
The most radical non-violent act you can do is withhold your labor and assert yourself as an autonomous being.
Connie Dai / DFP Staff

Heartland: American individualism is blocking Bessemer’s unionization drives

Maxwell Pociask April 11, 2022
It's the mindset of American individualism that makes anti-union propaganda so effective in this country.
A Profession Is Not A Personality | Is It OK If I Record?

A Profession Is Not A Personality | Is It OK If I Record?

Angela Yang October 17, 2021

This week, Sarah and Angela react to an Atlantic column by Arthur C. Brooks titled, "A profession is not a personality." The article feels like a much-needed callout of the workaholism ingrained...

Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston Globe protest proves even the best in the industry aren’t exempt from culture of overwork

Editors September 29, 2021
The Boston Globe strike is a disheartening example of the working conditions inside of seemingly progressive newsrooms.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Should we be dreaming of labor?

Editors September 7, 2021
It is difficult to parse the value labor should have in one’s life, but there is always going to be inherent value in simply being.
demonstrators gathered at Marriott Labor Day Rally

Union and non-union workers rally for rehire on Labor Day

Madison Mercado September 7, 2021
Labor Day rally hosted Monday in support of workers fired by Marriott Copley during the pandemic.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. If Walsh is confirmed by the Senate as Labor Secretary, he will look to take his labor- and community-oriented values to Washington. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

Recap of Walsh’s mayoral legacy

Daniel Kool January 28, 2021
At 21, he joined Boston’s Laborers Local 223 Union, maintaining active involvement for over 20 years. Now, the 53-year-old is being pulled to D.C., where he awaits a likely confirmation as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor.
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences senior Josh Prinzo poses with Paris Hilton at a protest supporting the #BreakCodeSilence movement aimed at supporting survivors of the troubled team industry. COURTESY OF JOSH PRINZO

CAS student shares personal experience with ‘troubled teen’ industry

Sophia Yakumithis November 24, 2020
One afternoon, Josh Prinzo was escorted onto a bus and taken to a wilderness camp with no prospect of returning home for seven months. The BU senior became one of hundreds of teenagers forced into a behavioral facility for rebellious teenagers.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The end of slavery — Part 2

Max Ferrandino October 27, 2020
It is a common belief that slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment, but a closer look at Section One of this amendment will disprove that idea.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The end of slavery — Part 1

Max Ferrandino October 19, 2020
Through this series, I will argue that slavery is still a real institution that exists both abroad and domestically. Although it doesn’t behave in the same ways it did in the past, the beast of slavery has evolved in different ways around the world. 
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