Solidarity Asks

University of Oregon Student Workers (UOSW) began a card-signing drive for a wall-to-wall student worker union in October 2022. In multiple instances since then, managers, supervisors, and other representatives of the University of Oregon have discouraged and deterred union organizing in violation of the Oregon Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. UOSW calls on the university […]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In the wake of the global pandemic, many U.S. working people are organizing for a multiracial democracy in which they have more power on the job and in their communities.  Their efforts build, in part, on a newfound public appreciation for labor unions that developed out of a celebration of essential workers and subsequent dismay