Eight local, campus labor groups form Brown University Labor Council

Eight local, campus labor groups form Brown University Labor Council

Eight labor groups across the University and Brown University Health have joined to form the Brown University Labor Council - a group aiming to coordinate bargaining and advocacy across unions. The council cited the need for a "united, empowered workforce" in a Labor Day statement announcing its formation.The council's founding members span across campus, including the unions representing clerical and technical library workers, dining workers, c…

Eight Brown University unions team up to form labor council

Brown University's Main Green is pictured in April 2024. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) Unions across Brown University and Brown University Health have banded together to form a new labor federation with about 7,000 members total. In a Monday announcement, the Brown University Labor Council (BULC) branded itself as “the first effort at creating a cross-sector labor organization” since the Ivy League school partnered with Lifesp…