United University Professions’ Lisi Wins Steinbock Media Award
Michael Lisi is the winner of the 2011 Max Steinbock Award, the highest honor given by the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA). Lisi, who writes for the United University Professions’ (UUP) “The Voice,” won for his story “Speaking Up for SUNY.”
UUP, an affiliate of AFT and the National Education Association (NEA), represents more than 35,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 State University of New York (SUNY) campuses.
The Steinbock award, named after a longtime ILCA president, honors the best labor story written in the previous year.
The ILCA’s annual Labor Media Awards this year include prize categories for social media, print, Web, photo essay, electronic newsletter, blog and multimedia campaigns. The awards will be presented formally Sept. 24 at the ILCA Convention in Seattle. Click here for a full list of this year’s winners.
740 Research Assistants Join CWA
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Research assistants at the State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation at Stony Brook overcame management’s strong anti-union effort, voting to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1104 earlier this month.
The 740 research assistants (RAs), all doctoral students, are seeking better pay and benefits and fairer treatment from a university administration they say has continually claimed it could not afford to pay them a more livable wage. The workers are particularly aggrieved over a $500 transportation and technology fee that the institution charges them each semester—a fee that has been waived for graduate and teaching assistants at Stony Brook, who are represented by Local 1104.
