Trump and his allies have a vision for higher education. So warned Ian Gavigan, the executive director of Higher Education Labor United (a national labor formation uniting Higher Education unions across the country), on the podcast The Dig earlier this month. In Trump’s world, according to Gavigan, fewer students attend college, fewer subjects are taught, more education […]
From our colleagues at UIC United Faculty Local 6456: Sign onto a letter in support of faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago Library! UIC Library workers understand that faculty from the UIC Daley Library and Library of Health Sciences passed a vote of no confidence in the Dean of Libraries, Rhea Ballard-Thrower. During a
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From our colleagues at AFT-Wisconsin Higher Education Council: Faculty and staff in the UW system have been pushing for the Board of Regents to recognize our unions and mandate that campus chancellors meet with elected union leadership to discuss salaries and working conditions. Gov. Evers supports union recognition, and now we just need the BOR
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From our colleagues at Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA Local 6186): Whether a professor, staff member, student, or community member, we all have the right to our own beliefs, ideas, and values and the right to speak about them openly as private citizens. On September 7, 2025, Dr. Alter delivered an off-campus talk as a
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From our colleagues at the UAW: UAW members are mobilizing against a burdensome new rule, the latest in a sequence of xenophobic directives coming from the Trump administration. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security published a rule that shortens the length of time international students and scholars on F and J visas may remain in
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Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it. Listen to the full episode at The Dig.
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Some faculty that are already strongly unionized, like Jenna Chernega, president of Inter Faculty Organization in Minnesota and a professor of sociology at Winona State University, have joined with the coalition Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), a newer group focused on building coalitions of different types of workers on campus and working across the unions that represent
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From our comrades at UAW 4100, see below for info on a phone bank to protect science funding THIS FRIDAY – please share widely! We have had major successes fighting back against the federal government’s attacks on science and higher education together with academic workers across the country. But our fight is not over. The Trump Administration has proposed
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Please download, print, and use these signs at rallies or just hang them up where you work! We’ll see you in the streets. Download “We All Get a Living Wage” PNG File | Download “We All Get a Living Wage” PDF File Download “Job Security” PNG File | Download “Job Security” PDF File Download “Higher
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From our colleagues at United Academics of the University of Oregon: The University of Oregon (UO) administration has announced the imminent layoff of an undisclosed number of faculty and the closure of academic departments and programs, based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late Spring Term. Twenty faculty and many of our other
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