Tracy Berger

Statement of Unity for the Future of Higher Ed

View the September 16, 2024 Labor for Higher Education coalition press conference on YouTube. View a PDF of the Statement of Unity here. Dear Vice President Kamala Harris, As unions representing U.S. higher education workers, we look forward to working with you and our elected partners to rebuild this country’s higher education system as a […]

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Stop Stanford From Terminating Every Creative Writing Lecturer!

From Stanford’s Creative Writing Lecturers: On August 21st, Stanford announced that it is terminating all Creative Writing Lecturers, starting in the summer of 2025, and returning the lectureships to a model of unsustainable teaching positions, where lecturers cycle through one-year, term-limited appointments. We call on Stanford to reverse the firing of the Jones Lecturers, to

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Tell Temple leaders: Stop Punishing Our Colleagues For Using Their Sick Days

From our colleagues at Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP): On August 28th, after a year of negotiation, and a 12 hour marathon session, TAUP was ready to sign a Tentative Agreement for the faculty, librarians, and academic advisors at Temple University. Temple’s negotiation team chose to derail all progress made over our insistence on

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Support University of Wisconsin System Workers in Their Fight for the Public Higher Education We All Deserve!

From our colleagues at Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA-Madison): For the past two decades, the University of Wisconsin System has been under attack: budget cuts combined with increased inflationary pressures have forced our faculty, staff, and students to do much more with much less. In this context many of our locals—including Green Bay, Oshkosh, Whitewater, River

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In a stunning move, perceived pay inequality is solved by pay cuts

Adjunct Librarians and counselors in Arizona’s largest community college district get pay slashed in the name of “internal pay equity” from JMH, Arizona community college worker As a white working-class woman who grew up in Arizona (AZ) and has worked here since I was 15 (as a retail worker, barista, server, grocery bagger, etc.), it’s

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Tell UCLA: Reinstate Lecturer Dr. Beth Ribet!

From our colleagues at UC-AFT: Ed Walker, Chair of UCLA’s Sociology department, recently terminated lecturer Beth Ribet’s appointment. Beth Ribet is among a number of UCLA faculty with disabilities who use universal design principles when teaching. Universal design increases accessibility of education for students, particularly those with disabilities. UCLA clearly encourages faculty to use universal

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Committee Chairs and Resolutions from the Convention

National Coordinated Organizing Committee (NCOC)Chair: Bret Benjamin, UUPText of the May 2024 NCOC Resolution Contingency Task Force (CTF)Chair: Joe Ramsey, FSU/MTA/NEAText of the May 2024 CTF Resolution Politics and Policy CommitteeChair: Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AFT/AAUPText of the May 2024 Politics & Policy Resolution Outreach CommitteeCo-Chairs: Carolyn Kube, MS MT ASCP (I) UUP, Vice President for

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Email Zap: Reinstate pro-Palestine student workers at the University of Michigan!

U-M President Santa Ono and the Board of Regents are leading an unprecedented campaign of mass repression againstpro-Palestine activists, using police violence, criminal charges, internal disciplinary processes, and firings to deter themovement, despite overwhelming support for divestment on campus. Just before the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, University of Michigan HR informed at least

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