Link Roundup – 12 November

ICE seeking new office space near College Park (November 6)

topics: local, immigration enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, General Services Administration

 

Howard Community College faculty escalate clash with president (November 10)

topics: Maryland, universities, faculty, academic administrators, university governance, Howard Community College

 

Baltimore sanitation and other municipal workers ratify new contract (November 10)

topics: Maryland, unions, AFSCME

 

Budget concerns resurface as [Maryland] faces projected $1.4 billion gap for coming year (November 11)

topics: Maryland, budget, federal funding

 

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear (November 4)

Furloughed Workers Recalled To Clear Buildings at Goddard (November 6)

Top Science Committee Democrat calls for halt to Goddard facility closures (November 11)

topics: regional, federal workers, layoffs, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, unions, GESTA

 

Cornell Reaches Settlement With Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding (November 7, updated November 9)

topics: national, federal funding, universities, Cornell University

 

Unions sue Trump administration over ‘loyalty question’ added to federal job applications (November 6)

topics: national, federal workers, unions, lawsuits against the federal government, AFGE, AFSCME, NAGE

 

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision (November 10)

topics: national, Pennsylvania, unions, strikes, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh

 

3,000 security guards in Philadelphia get a new union contract with raises (November 11)

topics: national, Pennsylvania, unions, SEIU 32BJ

 

More than 100 lawmakers push Starbucks to resume union negotiations (November 10)

topics: national, unions, Workers United, Starbucks