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.

While young architectural workers fight for better working conditions, firm owners like Sauvé address pervasive issues of architectural practice on a smaller scale.

Architectural Workers United has announced that they are withdrawing their petition to unionize the New York-based architecture firm SHoP, but at least six other firms in the city are reported to be organizing.

If successful, the New York-based group will be one of the first current unions at a U.S. firm in the private sector.