Articles Tagged with ''labor rights''

Hundreds of architects gathered to discuss strategies to eradicate forced labor in the built environment. 

While some architects at the firm’s home office in Oslo belong to the Norwegian national union for design professionals, Snøhetta’s U.S. employees would form only the second unionized architecture firm in the country.

Grappling with low wages and a high cost of living, academic workers across the University of California system staged a six-week strike that ranked as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

The AIANY-organized panel discussion comes months after workers at a Brooklyn firm established the profession's first private-sector union.

Following the failed organizing effort at SHoP last winter, the Brooklyn-based firm made history early this month when employees formed the country’s first private sector architecture union.

A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.