Union Drive – Northwestern University Graduate Workers

Fight for professional standards in labs & classrooms

By Communications Committee | December 12, 2022

Purple Background with big white letters saying "Professional Standards" next to a drawing of hand putting a ballot in a voting box.

You all should know how truly astounding it is that 2000+ of us signed cards authorizing a union election in under one month. Now, in two weeks almost 1000 of us have already pledged to vote YES on election day. We are the third largest union filing in the country in 2022, only trailing our…

By NUGW | October 6, 2022

NUGW Launches Union Drive with UE Today, October 6th is the official start of NUGW’s drive to form a legally recognized union of graduate employees. Hundreds of graduate workers are coming together at noon on Deering Meadow to fight for More Pay & More Say. Northwestern graduate workers are organizing to make sure that we…