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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern’s advocacy groups are taking to social media platforms to campaign.

Labor advocacy groups adapt to remote organizing

April 20, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic began reaching local communities, members of Students Organizing for Labor Rights were mobilizing for a living wage campaign for Northwestern’s food service workers. The pandemic...

In Tuesday’s “tweetstorm” organized by Northwestern University Graduate Workers  TGS students tweeted #universal1yr. It trended in Illinois.

Amid pandemic, graduate students launch Twitter campaign in latest efforts to secure additional year of funding

April 19, 2020

Many students enrolled in The Graduate School attained their undergraduate degrees during the economic recession of the late 2000s. A decade later, some say they’re facing similar circumstances that...

Rebecca Crown Center, home of The Graduate School. Northwestern University Graduate Workers published a petition urging the University to protect TGS students and workers.

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, NU Graduate Workers demand adequate protections in petition

April 6, 2020

Northwestern University Graduate Workers released a March 28 statement urging the University to provide adequate protections for graduate workers in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The petition is...

A NUGW member speaks at a protest in Chicago on Thursday. Entering the new decade, the group plans to continue to fight for union recognition.

2020 Vision: Despite roadblocks, Northwestern University Graduate Workers remain optimistic about unionization

November 18, 2019

This is the third article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years...

Northwestern University Graduate Workers during a May 2019 march. Graduate workers joined a national strike this week to protest police and racial violence.

Labor agency to revisit a past decision that ruled graduate students were employees

May 27, 2019

The National Labor Relations Board plans to revisit a 2016 ruling that classified many graduate students at private schools as employees, a move that could threaten unionization movements at universities...

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