Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at PSU-AAUP: On Tuesday, October 15th, the majority of non-tenure track faculty at Portland State received notice of layoffs. Instead of doing its work to invest in students and workers to grow Portland State, the Board of Trustees and Administration think they can cut their way to “financial sustainability.” Instead of investing […]

The workers, alumni, students, and community members of Colorado State University have started a petition to demand the following pay increase:

From our colleagues at GSEU Binghamton: We demand a contract that values our labor and the vital role we play in making SUNY run. Sign onto this petition to support SUNY grad workers. What do we want? If you believe that these issues are important and you want SUNY and NY state to come to

From our colleagues at the Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University (CGE-OSU AFT Local 6069): Our strike fund is live! All donations will go towards paying for the basic expenses of Graduate Workers in the event of a strike. Our goal is $50,000! If you want to help support our efforts, please donate

From our colleagues at PSC-CUNY: CUNY’s negotiators have made no improvement to their economic offer since March. There can be no business as usual for CUNY management until we get a fair offer. The annual Manhattan hearing is typically attended by Trustees, the chancellery, and college presidents, and other administrators. PSC members have testified before

Momodou Taal, a member of UE Local 300-Cornell Graduate Students United, was suspended by Cornell University without due process in retaliation for peaceful protest activities on campus. As a graduate worker, being suspended means that he loses his job, and as an international student, he is facing the threat of deportation. Local 300-CGSU and Cornell

Bennington College United (BCU), the union of staff, faculty and campus safety at Bennington College won recognition of their majority in February of 2024. Seven months later, the Bennington management team has only made proposals on eleven articles (zero economic articles). Sign BCU’s petition calling the management bargaining team to come to the table in

A&S Full Time Lecturers (FTLs), SMFA Professors of the Practice (POPs), & School of Engineering (SOE) Graduate Workers make Tufts students’ learning experience the best that it can be. Sign SEIU Local 509’s petition calling on the Tufts administration to negotiate a fair contract that includes livable wages, transparent responsibilities, and equitable workloads. The working

The nearly 800 Food Service and Building Service Workers, members of SEIU Local 73, at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign are planning to go on strike. These essential workers are the heart of the University. They cook the food for the students living in the dorms. They clean the buildings on campus. They deserve

From Stanford’s Creative Writing Lecturers: On August 21st, Stanford announced that it is terminating all Creative Writing Lecturers, starting in the summer of 2025, and returning the lectureships to a model of unsustainable teaching positions, where lecturers cycle through one-year, term-limited appointments. We call on Stanford to reverse the firing of the Jones Lecturers, to