Tracy Berger

Truthout: First-Ever Bargaining Compact Unites Higher Ed Unions Across Northeastern US

When East Coast members of Higher Education Labor United (HELU) got together in January, they set their sights on developing a national plan to improve working conditions for university and college faculty and staff, enhance learning conditions for students, and build lasting partnerships with local communities to promote the common good. Together, they drafted a document called the […]

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UC Workers Are Going on Strike! AFSCME 3299 Strike School for Supporters

From our colleagues at AFSCME 3299 at the University of California: Join AFSCME 3299 this Wednesday night, May 6 at 7pm PT to learn more about AFSCME 3299, their upcoming strike, the ongoing contract fight, and how you can support UC workers as they prepare to strike. Add the AFSCME 3299 Strike School to your

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UC Merced: We Demand Equitable Instructional Budget for Students and Faculty

From our colleagues at UC-AFT Local 1474 Merced Chapter: UC Merced’s commitment to academic excellence has been — and continues to be — at serious risk. Per-student education funding has fallen to the lowest level in the UC system. The student credit hours funding model has compounded this problem by incentivizing larger classes and fewer

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Tell Johns Hopkins: Meet TRU’s Demands – Demonstration in Gilman Hall

From our colleagues at Teachers and Researchers United at Johns Hopkins University (TRU-UE Local 197): Hopkins continues to ignore TRU’s demands while holding demonstrators under constant surveillance. Coworkers, friends, comrades, and community, please join us in applying pressure on JHU to meet our demands by sending this email to the president, vice provost, and other

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How you can help AFSCME 3299 as they prepare to strike May 14!

From our colleagues at AfSCME 3299: The University of California is in trouble. Over 13,000 frontline UC Service and Patient Care Workers have left their jobs in the last four years due to declining job quality, chronic understaffing, declining wages, and the inability to afford living near work. But frontline workers are fighting back and

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Demand a long overdue, fair contract for Lesley Core Faculty!

From our colleagues at SEIU 509: The Core faculty at Lesley University consists of about 80 Full time Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) professors who have been bargaining for TWO YEARS. Yesterday, April 27, they bargained from noon well into the night, but still couldn’t get the University to budge on important proposals like compensation, workload, and successorship,

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Loyola University Chicago: Email Officials to Demand they Deliver Faculty a Fair Contract

From our colleagues at SEIU Local 73: Union faculty at Loyola University Chicago (LUC) need your support as we bargain for a fair contract! Nearly half of Loyola classes are taught by non-tenure-track faculty. However, Loyola NTTs receive less than a quarter of the dollars spent on salary. Full-timers struggle to manage burnout teaching loads

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