![A Pitt Graduate Student Union poster.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_4582.jpeg)
Grad students unionize after seven-year effort, reflect on organizing under Trump
By Marissa Kelley, Senior Staff Writer
• January 17, 2025
![Supporters of the faculty union hold signs inside of the William Pitt Union to protest the Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 24, 2023.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/N_Union-Updates_ES-1200x800.jpeg)
A guide to ongoing negotiations between Pitt’s administration, campus union efforts
By Emma Hannan and Abby Lipold
• February 23, 2024
![Graduate students march to the Cathedral of Learning on Friday to deliver their health insurance petition to the Office of the Provost.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_5566-1200x808.jpg)
‘Direct attack’: Health insurance hikes push graduate students’ budgets to the breaking point
By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Writer
• September 4, 2023
![Members of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition staged a February sit-in in the Cathedral of Learning, calling for fossil fuel divestment.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_9453-900x600-1.jpg)
Oakland news roundup
By Priya Ray, Staff Writer
• July 25, 2020
![Pitt’s annual payments to the legal firm Ballard Spahr began to increase in 2016, coinciding with the launch of the graduate and faculty union campaigns.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/N_BallSpahr_TY-900x600.jpg)
Analysis: Comparing Pitt’s current Ballard Spahr spending with pre-unionization
By Neena Hagen, Senior Staff Writer
• January 21, 2020
![Pitt’s Office of University Counsel paid Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr, a “union avoidance” law firm, $1,071,573 in fees between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, to provide legal support during the separate graduate student and faculty campaigns for unionization.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/N_Union_EW.jpg)
Pitt’s bill for ‘union avoidance’ law firm passes $1 million
By Jon Moss, News Editor
• January 12, 2020
![Grad union organizers hold signs against the windows of the Forbes Avenue sky bridge on Wednesday afternoon.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/N_Grad-union_JC-900x601.jpg)
Grad union organizers hold demonstration on sky bridge
By Benjamin Nigrosh, Staff Writer
• December 4, 2019
Editorial: NLRB unionization proposal is a step backwards
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
• September 23, 2019
![The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board filed a decision Wednesday ordering a new election for Pitt’s graduate student union.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/N_GradUnion-900x600.jpg)
Labor official: Pitt website, department chair email involved in unfair practices
By Emily Wolfe, News Editor
• September 19, 2019
![The Pennsylvania Labor Review Board has determined that the University engaged in unfair labor practices during the grad student union election last spring.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/N_Grad-Union-900x600.jpg)
PLRB rules Pitt committed unfair labor practices, orders new grad union election
By Janine Faust, Editor-in-chief
• September 18, 2019
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