Tracy Berger

Support Tabassum Tamanna and All Survivors of Sexual Assault at Brown University

Tabassum Tamanna, a graduate student-employee in the Pathobiology program at Brown University, was sexually harassed and assaulted by another University employee while working in the Robert W. Sobol laboratory at Brown. Brown’s Title IX office delayed her case for nine months before ultimately dismissing it, only because the University declined to re-hire her assailant. Now, […]

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Brooklyn Needs Downstate Rally February 29, 2024, 12 PM ET at SUNY Downstate!

SUNY is pursuing a plan that will ultimately close SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hospital (SUNY Downstate Hospital). This plan is poor public policy, which will reduce health care in Brooklyn, undermine the hospital’s central mission, and harm the Brooklyn communities it serves. Downstate was NYS’s sole COVID-only hospital during the pandemic. Sadly, the key

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HELU’s Contingency Task Force: Building Movement in March!

From Joe Ramsey HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) works to center the concerns of contingent faculty (both part-time and full-time), and to raise consciousness more broadly about the way that labor precarity erodes academic freedom and the common good mission of higher education. We also work to develop and share strategies for building faculty solidarity and

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Is HELU’s “wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” too ambitious?

From Helena Worthen No. Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast is just the simplest way to state where we’ve got to go in order to eliminate contingency, reclaim academic freedom and get back higher education as a public good. “Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” may be ambitious, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. HELU is just the current front

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Maryland Higher Ed Workers Advocate for Passage of Collective Bargaining Law

From Marcus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a member of AAUP-AFT. This year, University System of Maryland graduate workers and faculty are once again backing legislation that would recognize collective bargaining (CB) rights for graduate assistants, faculty librarians, full-time and part-time faculty. When the National

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Medical Residents and Fellows in Oregon Health & Science University House Officers Union Ratify Second Contract by 96%

From Evan Bowman, IT Project Coordinator at OHSU and IT Chair of AFSCME Local 328, which represents over 8,000 healthcare workers. Portland, OR – The House Officers Union (AFSCME Local 4820) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has overwhelmingly voted to ratify their second three-year contract, with 96% of members voting to approve (OHSU

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AFT 2121: Petition to End Wage Theft at City College of San Francisco

From our colleagues at AFT 2121: City College of San Francisco is a gem of California public education. Right now its faculty need your support.  City College has been overdeducting from faculty paychecks for OPEB (retirement funds) for years from hundreds of faculty in a clear case of wage theft. When the faculty union AFT

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AFT New Mexico: No Cuts to HB 2 Educator Compensation

Late on the afternoon of Friday, February 9, 2024, our colleagues at AFT New Mexico learned that members of the NM Senate Finance Committee plan to cut their previous compensation recommendation for educational employees, both in K-12 and higher ed. The previously recommended budget included approximately a 4% raise. Members of the Senate Finance Committee are

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What HELU Offers

Written by Geoff Johnson. Geoff Johnson is a member of CFT/AFT San Diego and Grossmont Guild. Johnson is also Adjunct Rep to the CFT Community College Council, Chair of the CCA/CTA Part-time Faculty Issues Committee, President of the AFT Adjunct/Contingent Caucus, and sits on the One-Tier Task Force. This message is addressed to locals that are

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