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PLRB dismisses grad union complaints, upholds 2019 vote against unionization
By Rebecca Johnson, News Editor
• March 1, 2021
![Pitt’s Office of University Counsel paid Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr $881,069 in fees between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020 to contest simultaneous but separate unionization attempts by faculty and graduate students.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N_Grad-Union-Ballard-Spahr_File.jpg)
Steelworkers calls on Pitt to ‘end its anti-union campaign’ against faculty, grad students
By Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief
• January 29, 2021
![Grad union organizers urge Pitt administrators to grant one-year funding extension.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/N_Grad-Union_JC-900x600.jpg)
Nearly 800 Pitt grad students sign petition demanding funding extension
By Benjamin Nigrosh, New Editor
• June 25, 2020
![Grad union organizers urge Pitt administrators to grant one-year funding extension.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/N_Grad-Union_JC-900x600.jpg)
Labor board to hold hearing on proposed grad union ruling
By Neena Hagen and Jon Moss
• February 18, 2020
![Grad union organizers urge Pitt administrators to grant one-year funding extension.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/N_Grad-Union_JC-900x600.jpg)
Grad union organizers planning second election for this semester
By Neena Hagen, Senior Staff Writer
• February 4, 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 22, 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
![A resolution proposed by board member Eric Macadangdang calling on support for University labor and rights to organize without unlawful intrusion passed at last night’s meeting. It comes about a month after Pitt filed an exception to a ruling proposed by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board on Sept. 18, halting its orders.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/N_SGB_HH-900x627.jpg)
SGB passes resolution backing proposed PLRB grad union ruling
By Emily Drzymalski, Staff Writer
• November 20, 2019
![Provost Ann Cudd maintained the University did not do anything wrong during April’s graduate student union election after a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board official ruled that Pitt committed unfair labor practices.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/N_BOT-Cudd_KC-900x600.jpg)
Cudd says Pitt still considering options on proposed grad union ruling
By Jon Moss, Assistant News Editor
• September 29, 2019
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