Jeff Schuhrke

Jeff Schuhrke is the grievance chair of the Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Latest from Jeff Schuhrke

Economy & Labor

Graduate Workers Will Fight Like Hell to Stop the Trump Labor Board’s New Rule

Trump’s NLRB is attempting to strip grad students of their union rights by refusing to recognize them as “workers.”

by: Jeff Schuhrke,; In These Times

September 27, 2019

Workers Say NAFTA’s Neoliberal Foundations Need to Be Dismantled From the Left — Not the Right

A coalition of unions gathered in Chicago to discuss NAFTA.

by: Jeff Schuhrke,; In These Times

October 28, 2017

Economy & Labor

Workers May Have Just Killed Missouri’s Anti-Union “Right-to-Work” Law

A coalition of labor groups collected over 300,000 to stop the right-to-work law from taking effect in Missouri.

by: Jeff Schuhrke,; In These Times

August 22, 2017

New Study Finds “More Sweatshops Than Starbucks” in Chicago

“Employers know they can get away with abuse.”

by: Jeff Schuhrke,; In These Times

May 24, 2017

Economy & Labor

A Ph.D. in Organizing

Graduate students at private universities are organizing to join the ranks of the unionized.

by: Jeff Schuhrke &; Dawn Tefft,; Labor Notes

December 29, 2016