From our colleagues at Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA Local 6186): Whether a professor, staff member, student, or community member, we all have the right to our own beliefs, ideas, and values and the right to speak about them openly as private citizens. On September 7, 2025, Dr. Alter delivered an off-campus talk as a […]
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From our colleagues at the UAW: UAW members are mobilizing against a burdensome new rule, the latest in a sequence of xenophobic directives coming from the Trump administration. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security published a rule that shortens the length of time international students and scholars on F and J visas may remain in
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Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it. Listen to the full episode at The Dig.
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Some faculty that are already strongly unionized, like Jenna Chernega, president of Inter Faculty Organization in Minnesota and a professor of sociology at Winona State University, have joined with the coalition Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), a newer group focused on building coalitions of different types of workers on campus and working across the unions that represent
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From our comrades at UAW 4100, see below for info on a phone bank to protect science funding THIS FRIDAY – please share widely! We have had major successes fighting back against the federal government’s attacks on science and higher education together with academic workers across the country. But our fight is not over. The Trump Administration has proposed
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Please download, print, and use these signs at rallies or just hang them up where you work! We’ll see you in the streets. Download “We All Get a Living Wage” PNG File | Download “We All Get a Living Wage” PDF File Download “Job Security” PNG File | Download “Job Security” PDF File Download “Higher
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From our colleagues at United Academics of the University of Oregon: The University of Oregon (UO) administration has announced the imminent layoff of an undisclosed number of faculty and the closure of academic departments and programs, based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late Spring Term. Twenty faculty and many of our other
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From our colleagues at CSUEU: Sign this petition to oppose the proposal of Lam Family College of Business Dean Eugene Sivadas to eliminate the major in Labor Studies at San Francisco State University. The elimination of the major would undermine the ability of the Labor Studies faculty to educate, inspire, and train the next generation
From our colleagues at UC-AFT Local 1474: Last week, the Trump administration made it official: they are coming after the University of California. It is imperative that in their response to this attack, UC leaders negotiate with the knowledge that what is at stake is not just research grant funding for UCLA, but the future
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Student Workers of Columbia is in the process of negotiating a new contract, and the Columbia administration has responded by eliminating graduate instructor positions and recruiting scabs to replace us. We are asking our allies to let their colleagues know, and to tell Columbia they won’t take our jobs by signing this pledge. PhD students
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