Explainer: How to vote in Pitt’s faculty union election
A multi-year effort to unionize roughly 3,000 University faculty will culminate in a union election starting Friday. Pitt professors and researchers from all campuses will be able to cast their votes...
View ArticlePitt unveils new data science major
Pitt senior Gordon Lu chooses majors more easily than some students pick out their lunch at the dining hall. A little bit of economics, a lot of statistics, a sampling of mathematics and heaps of...
View Article‘A long time coming’: Pitt faculty celebrate union victory
When Pitt faculty voted against unionization in 1991, then United Faculty President Philip Wion wasn’t sure he’d ever see the University’s professors and researchers form a union. Now 80 years old and...
View ArticlePitt’s spending on ‘union avoidance’ law firm nears $3M
As Pitt neared an historic election that saw faculty vote overwhelmingly in favor of unionization, the University administration continued to pay large sums of money to a “union avoidance” law firm,...
View Article‘The money just disappeared’: Financial aid glitches leave thousands of...
When Will Hayden checked his Pitt email last Thursday, he thought he was $5,000 richer. The social work master’s student received an email from the University granting him a $5,000 scholarship for...
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‘Concerning’: Anderson Bridge in Oakland plagued by ‘poor’ ratings for nearly...
Soaring high above Junction Hollow, the Charles Anderson Bridge ferries more than 20,000 vehicles between Oakland and Schenley Park every day. The historic bridge, which spans nearly 800 feet along the...
View ArticleThe Panther Report | Pittsburgh Bridges
In collaboration with WPTS, The Pitt News presents The Panther Report podcast. In this episode, Jon Moss and Neena Hagen discuss the Charles Anderson and Fern Hollow bridges with WPTS news director...
View ArticlePitt faculty union elects bargaining committee, begins negotiating with...
Four months after Pitt faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionization, the union’s newly formed bargaining committee sat down alongside United Steelworkers representatives last Friday to...
View ArticlePitt faculty union, administration clash over lifting mask mandate
The United Steelworkers union filed an unfair practices charge against Pitt on Friday, alleging that University administrators failed to consult faculty before announcing that campus buildings would go...
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Phil Wion: A labor of love
The first time Pitt faculty voted to unionize, there was no victory celebration. Instead, many organizers feared that the supposed win threatened to destroy union organizing efforts at universities...
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