Statement of Solidarity with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Princeton Graduate Students United (PGSU) stands in solidarity with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton. Shortly after her courageous speech at the Hampshire College commencement, she received racist, sexist, and homophobic e-mails, as well as serious threats to her life and safety. PGSU abhors and condemns these attempts to …

Graduate students receive update on unionization

By Rose Gilbert On Monday night, four panelists from NYU and Rutgers shared their experience with higher education unions and encouraged University graduate students to unionize. Last October, graduate students voted to affiliate their union, Princeton Graduate Students United (PGSU), with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Now, PGSU organizers are holding meetings and events …

Princeton grad workers vote to join AFT

By Stephon Johnson Graduate workers at Princeton University have followed the lead of their University of Chicago and Cornell University peers. Last week, members of Princeton Graduate Students United voted to join the American Federation of Teachers and its state affiliate, AFT New Jersey, after the recent National Labor Relations Board decision to classify private …

Princeton Graduate Students Consider Unionization

By Erin Delmore, Correspondent [NOTE: The video report concludes that “to form a union 30% of graduate students need to back the effort.” Unions are actually formed when a majority of the workers vote to unionize. The 30% figure represents the percentage of workers who need to agree to take a National Labor Relations Board …

Princeton graduate students get national support for unionization efforts

By Anna Merriman, NJ.com PRINCETON – A collection of graduate students at Princeton University made the first step in the process of forming a union this week when they voted to accept support from a national teachers’ union. The students, who have been meeting for months to discuss unionization, accepted a proposal for affiliation from …