• AFL-CIO: American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
• Canadian Labor Congress
• AAUP: American Association of University Professors
• AFT: American Federation of Teachers (AFT higher education resources)
• CUPE: Canadian Union of Public Employees
• CWA: Communication Workers of America
• FNEEQ: Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec
• UNITE HERE!
• NEA: National Education Association (NEA higher education resources)
• PSAC: Public Service Alliance of Canada
• UAW: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
• UE: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
• Education International
• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• Public Services International

• International News Headlines from LabourStart
• Workplace
• LaborNet
• Labor Notes

• AFL-CIO: " The Silent War: The Assault on Workers' Freedom to Choose a Union and Bargain Collectively in the United States"
• Gordon Lafer, "Organizing Graduate Students" is an excellent overview. (Order print copies)
• U.S. Department of Education: "Student Financing of Graduate and First-Professional Education, 1999-2000" summaries grad employee salaries and other data.
• International Labor Organization: "The Elimination of all Forms of Forced or Compulsory Labor"
• Human Rights Watch: "Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards"
• ICFTU: annual international survey of violations of trade union rights

For more news sources, check out Dan Tsang's Traversing the Alternative Web. Dan was a founding member of GEO at UM, and you can read an article of his about the UC system strike.

• The National Labor Relations Board website includes NLRB decisions and orders in PDF format. (Graduate employee unionists will be interested in the recent decisions regarding TAs and RAs at NYU, TAs at Yale and interns at the Boston Medical Center -- see the CGEU FAQ for key issues and the difference between public and private sector employees.)
• Other US government agencies of interest are the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; see also the the Americans with Disabilities Act Homepage -- and everybody has a good time at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• State and Local Government Sites in the USA will help you locate your state labor board.
• The University of Michigan Documents center has links to political parties in the USA as well as state legal sources on the web and government sites from around the world. See also FindLaw Legal Resources on the Web to search federal and state legislation.

• UN International Labour Organization
• Human Rights Watch
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• Workers Rights Consortium
• National Labor Committee
• Campaign for Labor Rights

• Fairjobs.org
• Association for Union Democracy
• Pride at Work (AFL-CIO LBGT)

• Buy your books at Powell's (a union shop -- use the union's website and members get 10% of your purchase!)
• Find a union hotel!
• Try WorkingFamlies.com
• Search the AFL-CIO's databse of union-made products
• Bid on old union buttons and other collectibles on E-Bay

• AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
• Union Jobs Clearinghouse.

• American Universities
• Canadian Universities
• Community College Web has resources about and links to community colleges.
• General Education Online has over 6,400 links to educational facilities around the world.

• Our employers work together, too. The American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools, for example, all joined the NYU administration in amicus briefs opposing the right of graduate employees to form unions. Universities also employ lawyers and human resources directors who share anti-union strategies.
• American Council on Education
• The Council of Graduate Schools
• Association of American Universities
• Canadian Assn for Graduate Studies
• The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
• The American Association of State Colleges and Universities
• The Council on Governmental Relations addresses policies regarding federal research at universities.
• The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago.
• The National Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education is an umbrella organization for historically Black colleges and universities.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education is a weekly publication covering higher ed. Back issues are accessible to subscribers only.

• The American Association of University Women and The International Federation of University Women promote gender equality in higher education.
• The Canadian Association of University Teachers does not represent graduate employees per se, but their site does have some good information about the higher education scene in Canada, as well as listings for full-time academic positions.
• Robert Pankin and Carla Weiss compile a bibliography of sources on Part-Time faculty

• NAGPS: The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students is a national organization for grad students and grad student organizations. NAGPS monitors legislation and acts as an information clearinghouse. Their website includes the links to Albert Einstein's essay "For An Organization of Intellectual Workers" and The NAGPS Graduate Student Employee's Bill of Rights.
• Marie desJardins's "How to Be a Good Graduate Student" is an introduction and guide to getting a Ph.D.
• Robert H. Butters's Resource Page for Graduate Students has academic, research and professional links for grad students. So does Dan Horn's Graduate Student Resources.
• H-Grad has lots of resources and a grad student discussion forum "for the open and frank exchange of ideas on issues affecting graduate students."
• The discussion group PhinisheD may be for you "if you are sick to death of people asking you 'How is your dissertation (or thesis) coming?' (but you really would like to talk about your troubles in finishing ...)."
• The National Research Council administers predoctoral, dissertation, postdoctoral, and other fellowship programs for advanced study in research-based disciplines.
• Washington University's Professional Development Resources page has links to many job-posting sites and related information. The Chronicle of higher Education has Employment Information and Job Postings.
• PhDs.Org has Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources that include the results of a survey of graduate students in the sciences and engineering. This site also has an excellent collection of articles about "how the current job market problems for Ph.D.s came into being and what can be done about them."