From Marc Kagan at PSC-CUNY: For use in discussions at the Professional Staff Congress at City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Delegate Assembly this week: Looking for examples of union statements about campus protests that go beyond condemnation of the suppression of these protests. Please send them to Mark Kagan at marcleeann@gmail.com.
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From our friends at CFA Humboldt: Keep the pressure on the CSU, calling for the immediate removal and termination of President Tom Jackson and Chief of Staff Mark A. Johnson from their positions at Cal Poly Humboldt. Their repeatedly extreme and reckless actions in response to recent campus protests have systematically endangered students, staff, and
From GOLD-UE: “After eight months of bargaining for our premiere contract, GOLD-UE members have voted to authorize a strike! As a potential strike approaches, there are many ways for members of the community to support our fight.“
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“Resident Advisors at Penn are on the frontlines of student health and well-being at Penn. “In September 2023, 87% of RAs voted in favor of unionizing with OPEIU 153. This decision reflected RAs collective resolve to have more input and fair compensation for their substantial contributions to campus life. “While (G)RAs have had some success
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) stands with many others in the U.S. labor movement in condemning the arrests and disciplinary actions recently taken by a growing list of college and university leaders at Cal Poly Humboldt, Columbia, Emerson, Emory, NYU, The Ohio State University, Yale, the Universities of Minnesota, Southern California, Texas at Austin, and
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Student Workers at NYU (SWAN), Resident Assistants are unionizing! NYU student workers are unionizing for various reasons. Some of the goals we could achieve through collective bargaining are better pay and benefits, work-life boundaries, improved training, clearer boundaries for job role, consistency and transparency. Tell Linda Mills, president of NYU, and the board to acknowledge
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“On April 18th, Minouche Shafik, the President of Columbia, violated university procedures and authorized the NYPD to arrest dozens of Columbia students, including members of Student Workers of Columbia— SWC-UAW 2710. The protesting students and student workers had bravely held the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the lawn in the center of campus for two days,
“American Association of University Professors chapters plan to join Higher Education Labor United, the American Federation of Teachers, and other higher education unions and student organizations in the event is deemed a coordinated nationwide counter-offensive against a sustained assault on American higher education as a public good.” Read more here.
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“Last year alone, [Inside Higher Ed] reported, 26 new bargaining units earned voluntary recognition or certification – that represents more than 40,000 researchers, post-doctoral workers and graduate-student workers on higher-ed campuses. A developing organization, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, is also trying to forge a national coalition of higher-ed workers, those in a union
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Grad workers at Boston University are on strike as of Monday, March 25, “calling for better pay, improved health care coverage and guaranteed childcare subsidies, among other demands.” The rank and file of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU) has created an independent Hardship Fund, sponsored by the Jamaica Plain non-profit bookstore, the Lucy
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