One of the nine suspects accused in the kidnapping and torture of two University of Rochester students has taken a plea deal. Jesus Castro-Ubiles was in court today, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree kidnapping and criminal possession of a weapon. He is facing 35 years in state prison […]
University of Rochester graduate and teaching students are announcing plans to form a union. As it turns out, they aren’t the only ones now that a National Labor Relations Board has lifted the ban on graduate assistants’ right to unionize. Yesterday’s ruling reversed the 2004 Bush-era Brown University decision, in which the same board ruled […]
Some University of Rochester graduate students say they will mount union organizing drive….now that a National Labor Relations Board ruling has given grad students at Columbia the right to form a union. The NLRB overturned a Bush Administration ruling that held graduate students were not university employees and couldn’t join a labor organization. The Service […]