Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at SEIU 509: The Core faculty at Lesley University consists of about 80 Full time Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) professors who have been bargaining for TWO YEARS. Yesterday, April 27, they bargained from noon well into the night, but still couldn’t get the University to budge on important proposals like compensation, workload, and successorship, […]

From our colleagues at SEIU Local 73: Union faculty at Loyola University Chicago (LUC) need your support as we bargain for a fair contract! Nearly half of Loyola classes are taught by non-tenure-track faculty. However, Loyola NTTs receive less than a quarter of the dollars spent on salary. Full-timers struggle to manage burnout teaching loads

From our colleagues at the Graduate Employees Organization at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC-GEO): UIC-GEO has been bargaining with the university administration for a new contract since April 28th, 2025 – nearly an entire year. They have been working without a new contract since August of 2025. Throughout this process the university administration has made

From our colleagues at 32BJ-SEIU: Tufts workers are asking folks to write a letter to university leadership in support of an excellent union contract for facilities staff represented by SEIU 32BJ. Their core demands are: The labor performed by SEIU 32BJ is essential to keeping Tufts running and its academic output cutting-edge. These union members

From our colleagues at AAUP Smith: Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance. A group of Hampshire staff and faculty have launched an Emergency Relief Fund, providing direct financial assistance for immediate needs such as housing, food, healthcare, and other essential expenses. Funds raised here

Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU) has been bargaining with University administration since February 2025 on key issues of: pay equity; real recourse against harassment and discrimination; stronger non-citizen worker protections; and fair share fees that help ensure the best possible enforcement of HGSU’s contract. Please help provide material support for striking graduate workers in Cambridge! Read more and contribute

From our colleagues at Graduate Employees’ Organization, AFT 3550: A graduate worker in Taubman was detained by ICE on Wednesday. He is currently being held in North Lake Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan. His detention was avoidable and is a direct result of several failures and problems within the college’s hiring practices and lack of

From our colleagues at University Professionals of Illinois (UPI): For 10 months, UIS staff and faculty chapters of UPI Local #4100 have been in negotiations for new labor contracts with the university administration. Due to administrative foot-dragging, there has been little progress in negotiations. To avoid a strike, the administration needs to come to the

From our colleagues at Drexel University AAUP: The Drexel provost’s office is proposing to drastically reduce the length of non-tenure track faculty contracts and to gut the current NTT policy, PO-85. These proposed expedited, top-down unilateral cuts will: