Tracy Berger

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Support Minimum Compensation for Higher Education Faculty in New Mexico

Sign the petition for a living wage for faculty at all New Mexico colleges and universities. The establishment of a comparable minimum salary for full-time and part-time faculty at New Mexico’s colleges and universities will achieve parity among the state’s public educators and ensure that New Mexico’s public colleges and universities will be able to […]

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Email MD legislators to tell them you support collective bargaining for higher education!

Workers in Maryland’s public institutions of higher education are organizing to pass legislation allowing them to engage in collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a fundamental right of all workers, but educators in Maryland state institutions of higher education are denied this right under current law. Collective bargaining between university educators and administration is the best

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Philadelphia: Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid

“Can this possibly be real?” one colleague asked me when she saw the tweet. It sure is, as Temple officials have confirmed. Many commenters in the Tweet thread suggested that this is downright illegal. And the national coalition Higher Education Labor United put out a statement declaring that “removing tuition remission would destroy [Temple University]

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Sign on: Build a better future at Eastern Kentucky University

At the end of 2022, administrators at Eastern Kentucky University sent down word of a “soft” hiring freeze. This freeze is just one more item on a list of unfair decisions made by university administrators without input from the employees they impact. The unjust and unethical status quo doesn’t work. It leads to rapid burnout

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A flyer for PFSU's Rally for Power and Protection for Grad Workers on Wed. Feb. 15, 2023

Support Princeton Graduate Students United – Contribute

Princeton Graduate Students United is a group of graduate students committed to winning the right and the opportunity to have a say in the terms and conditions of our employment here at Princeton. Through ground-up, grassroots organization, we are identifying the needs and concerns of Princeton graduate student workers and the ways in which we can improve our relationship with

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Sign GEO Open Letter: We Stand with University of Michigan Grad Workers

Sign this open letter to stand with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) in their contract negotiations for a living wage. Grad workers’ compensation should reflect the value they provide to the University. Graduate workers teach a majority of discussion sections and introductory classes, create ground-breaking research, and play a central role to the University’s educational

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The University of Colorado’s non-tenure track faculty deserve stable working conditions and living, professional wages

A petition for anyone generally concerned with the state of public higher education in Colorado. Across the country, including at the University of Colorado, non-tenure track (NTT) contingent faculty make up the majority of university faculty and represent the future of higher education, yet these workers are compensated at a fraction of what tenured and

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Notes from the UIC-UF Picket Line

From Anne Balay, HELU Media & Communications Team Lead On January 17 and 18, 2023, I walked with striking workers on the picket line at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). These tenure-track and full-time non-tenure-track faculty workers are members of UIC United Faculty (UIC-UF). Each day, workers walked picket lines from 10am to noon,

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Solidarity with UC-AFT teachers preparing to strike

UC-AFT members at UCLA’s Lab School (contingent instructors who teach grades K-6 on the UCLA campus and conduct research and outreach in conjunction with UCLA’s School of Education) are going on strike this Wednesday and Thursday (1/25 and 1/26/23) to protest the administration’s illegal refusal to bargain.  There are two solidarity asks:  More info is

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UIC faculty on strike, with UIC-UF hat

Contribute to the UIC-UF Strike Fund

University of Illinois at Chicago–United Faculty (UIC–UF) went on strike today (Jan. 17, 2023) for: For some UIC-UF workers, a strike could lead to financial challenges. To that end, UIC-UF has authorized an Emergency Strike Fund to be prepared to help striking members meet their short-term financial needs. 100% of funds raised will be distributed directly to union members experiencing financial hardships.

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