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Contribute to the Strike Fund for UVMMC Support Staff and Techs

From our colleagues at AFT Vermont: 3,300 Support Staff and Techs have been bargaining with UVM Medical Center since April, seeking to improve staffing and retention amongst the hospitals’ lowest paid workers. For months management has made minimal movement by slow-rolling proposals and refusing to bargain over the union’s common good priorities. Now, the hospital

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September 23 – Birddog Training Seminar with Sunrise Movement and the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education

Wed, Sep 23, 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT Birddogging is a powerful organizing tactic that puts people in power on the spot, demands answers, and invites the public to join the fight. Join us to learn the basics, sharpen your skills, and plug into real opportunities to keep our campuses safe from ICE and Flock

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September 23 – We Need a Payment Pause! National Campaign Call

From our colleagues at Debt Collective: The federal loan system is in disarray. From soaring payment amounts to miscounted past payment history, from servicer errors to Dept of Ed blunders, the student debt collections system simply doesn’t work. Sep 23, 20268:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDTRegister Here Until these problems are fixed, student debtors need

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I am not a Machine: Unions Don’t Corrupt Mentorship, Exploitation Does.

A response to Evan D. Morris, “Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea” in Inside Higher Ed. by Tessa Barber, M.A. I am a graduate student. I am an employee of my university. One of those identities does not supersede the other. Instead, they live in tandem. My institution expects me to

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Filling the Cracks in Higher Ed: Why Union Membership is Crucial for Postdocs

Unionization mends the pitfalls of temporary employment that can bring a student or faculty member’s untenured progress to a halt. Written and edited by Katya Incle, Allison Brown, and Jamie Dietrich, members of United Campus Workers of Arizona – CWA Local 7065 A response to Evan D. Morris, “Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is

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Sign: Keep AI out of Patient Care at UCLA Health!

From our colleagues at Teamsters Local 2010: Since January, workers at UCLA Health’s call center have been fighting back against an “AI customer service platform” being forced onto our work. This software has the potential to violate patient and employee privacy, replace our experienced judgment with AI approximations, and undermine our Union-guaranteed rights to a

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Graduate workers paid late – Contribute to IGWC-UE’s Emergency Mutual Aid Fund

From our colleagues at Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (IGWC-UE): At the last minute, many Indiana University graduate workers were surprised to learn they would not receive a stipend in the month of August. August is always a difficult month financially for graduate workers on 10-month contracts, but typically the IU pay schedule means that graduate

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Help Utah State University workers continue providing a safe environment for students and staff

From our colleagues at United Campus Workers Utah (UCW Utah CWA 7765): The Taggart Student Center belongs to the students who use it. Students eat, study, and work at the TSC, and as custodial staff, keeping the TSC clean and safe is our responsibility. Because the TSC is funded by student fees, students have a

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