Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at United Campus Workers of Kentucky: Last week was devastating for the students, staff, and faculty at Kentucky’s public universities, and for everyone concerned about the state of postsecondary education in our Commonwealth. But it was not unexpected, and our coalition still has important work to do going forward. Now that Representative […]

From our colleagues at Student Workers of Columbia (UAW Local 2710): Columbia University abandoned GSAPP PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan to abduction by ICE, cancelling her student status and housing agreement without due process. She was forced to leave the country for Canada, where she is currently. Columbia has made its students less safe under already

The Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia (FSFCCP), which just had a 97% approval strike authorization with almost 90% participation, is under attack.  Today, the PA Labor Relations Board (PLRB) announced that they will appoint a fact finder. This move is a delay tactic that draws out our already long-overdue fight for a

From our colleagues at United Academics of Maryland (UAM): We have been fighting in Annapolis for collective bargaining legislation for all faculty and librarians in Maryland higher ed institutions for the last three years. It has been a tough fight, but we may be on the cusp of a major breakthrough. It seems likely that

From our colleagues at PSU-AAUP: Unfortunately even after over 170 hours of PSU-AAUP bargaining, mediation, and impasse, the Cudd administration is resisting making meaningful changes to layoff protections or respecting shared governance, resisting giving academic professionals a livable COLA or any annual payscale, and delaying a contract which has bilingual pay for BIPOC academic professionals

From our colleagues at GSOC-UAW Local 2110, the union for graduate workers at NYU: On Feb. 19, 2025, NYU suspended three more student-workers, all from the Department of Art and Public Policy, for participating in a study-in at Bobst Library on December 11, 2024. This includes an international student, who will be deported immediately, and resulted

From our colleagues at Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has increasingly relied on the underpaid, under-recognized labor of Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) faculty to educate future artists, architects, designers, scholars, and historians. We’ve watched as inflation has devoured our paychecks, while tuition has risen; currently, more

From our colleagues at United Campus Workers Kentucky and Kentuckians for Higher Education: As you may know, House Bill 4, an anti-DEI bill, was filed in the Kentucky state legislature this week. If passed, HB 4 would put university jobs at risk, threaten crucial university funding, and close DEI offices, programs, and resource centers! Kentuckians for Higher Education and