This academic year has been the busiest for labor bargaining at Brown in recent history, as the unprecedented alignment of nine contract bargaining cycles brought unions representing thousands of University employees to the negotiating table.
Of the 12 on-campus labor unions, only three — representing graduate student workers, Department of Public Safety Sergeants and campus police officers, building guards and security officers — did not begin the year in active negotiations with Brown.
Since September, the unions representing computer science teaching assistants, community coordinators and Card Office and Transportation Office employees have signed contracts with Brown, while the bargaining unit of dining workers reached a five-year agreement in late March…