Solidarity Asks

In early February, many employees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill had a double parking deduction from their paychecks due to university error. Many of these employees are in the lower pay bands at the university, and this error deeply affects their ability to pay their bills and survive to the beginning of the month. Additionally, […]

SUNY is pursuing a plan that will ultimately close SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hospital (SUNY Downstate Hospital). This plan is poor public policy, which will reduce health care in Brooklyn, undermine the hospital’s central mission, and harm the Brooklyn communities it serves. Downstate was NYS’s sole COVID-only hospital during the pandemic. Sadly, the key

From our colleagues at AFT 2121: City College of San Francisco is a gem of California public education. Right now its faculty need your support.  City College has been overdeducting from faculty paychecks for OPEB (retirement funds) for years from hundreds of faculty in a clear case of wage theft. When the faculty union AFT

Late on the afternoon of Friday, February 9, 2024, our colleagues at AFT New Mexico learned that members of the NM Senate Finance Committee plan to cut their previous compensation recommendation for educational employees, both in K-12 and higher ed. The previously recommended budget included approximately a 4% raise. Members of the Senate Finance Committee are

Earlier in January, the University of North Carolina Greensboro released a list of programs up for elimination. From our union siblings at UNCG AAUP: The proposed list of cuts released by the Chancellor overwhelmingly targets the College of Arts and Sciences, chipping away at UNCG’s promise of a well-rounded liberal arts education that will prepare

From our union siblings at United University Professions (UUP) at the SUNY system: SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. announced a plan Jan. 16 to make drastic changes in the structure and operation of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. SUNY’s plan would relegate this safety net hospital to a wing in Kings County Hospital Center.

From our union siblings at University of Maryland AAUP-AFT: Workers in Maryland’s public institutions of higher education are organizing for the passage of legislation allowing them to engage in collective bargaining. We need your support! Collective bargaining is a fundamental right of all workers, but faculty and students in Maryland state institutions of higher education

Graduate workers at the University of Oregon (UO) plan to go on strike starting January 17, 2024. Already they are seeing many of their jobs being posted for scab hirings. The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF), the union of graduate workers at UO, is asking for solidarity from the higher education labor community. After nearly

Have you heard that unelected Penn trustees are now considering a hostile takeover of the University of Pennsylvania’s basic academic functions? A letter circulated among the trustees by a private equity billionaire suggests that they might unilaterally close departments, change faculty hiring criteria (with the aim of destroying DEI initiatives), and impose a speech code to discipline students and