Solidarity Asks

Join a growing movement of travelers pledging to support Graduate by Hilton Hotel workers in their fight. Hotel workers at the Hotel Boulderado in Boulder, Colorado (soon to be a Graduate Hotel) are demanding a fair process to decide on a union, free of intimidation. Workers at the Graduate by Hilton Berkeley hotel won their […]

From our colleagues at Hofstra AAUP: Hofstra AAUP’s contract expires next week, on August 31, 2026. So far Hofstra administration has not provided adequate assurances of a fair contract. Please sign this petition to show the Hofstra admin that the faculty aren’t standing alone – there’s a whole movement behind each of our unions when

From our colleagues at Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA Local 6186): Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University just days into his freshman year. As was widely reported, Devion became the center of a viral harassment campaign after he was

From our colleagues at Workers United Southern Region: On June 30, Spelman College changed its campus cleaning contractor from Aramark Corporation to Integrity National Corporation. The longtime Spelman janitorial workers employed by Aramark had a union contract, and many had worked on the campus for more than 15 years. When Integrity took over, almost none

From our colleagues at GLO-Brown: Mansi Kumar is a first year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. She received formal approval for medical time off to recover from a concussion which could exacerbate her retinal degeneration. When she returned, her advisor placed her on academic probation and justified it by stating in an email that Mansi

A Tufts University international graduate worker recently faced retaliation by her adviser for reporting that they required her to work a significant amount of hours as an unpaid teaching assistant, which violated her union contract. Later, the graduate worker was removed from her doctoral program. Tufts is choosing to tolerate and accept exploitative and retaliatory behavior

From our colleagues at UCW Kentucky: The University of Louisville (UofL) has implemented a reduction in force (RIF), laying off more than a dozen staff workers with little to no warning. These decisions have been made with little transparency. So far, six staff members in Arts & Sciences have been informed that they will lose

From our colleagues at the Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Michigan (GEO-AFT Local 3550): Philippe Kame. a student at the University of Michigan, Taubman school of Architecture, was detained by ICE in April 2026. Philippe has recently been released on bond. While this is an important step forward, Philippe’s legal journey is far

From our colleagues at the California Faculty Association and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union (PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, Local 6324): On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine Global Studies Professor

From our colleagues at the Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Michigan (GEO-AFT Local 3550): On June 10, 2026 between 7 and 8:30am, FBI agents, state police, local police officers, and the University of Michigan Police Department conducted a coordinated raid and arrest of 8 activists across Ann Arbor, Canton, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The FBI