Academic Conferences and Hotel Labor

BY HANK REICHMAN As a retired faculty member I don’t attend too many scholarly conferences these days, outside of the AAUP of course.  But I do still enjoy the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and plan to attend this year’s gathering in Boston, December 6-9.  But like…

Solidarity Lunch

Each year the University of Cincinnati chapter holds a Solidarity Lunch to which it invites not only its own members but also the members of all of the other unions that represent university employees. At my own university, only the maintenance workers are also unionized, but I think that this sort of “solidarity” event is…