Solidarity Asks

Faculty Alliance of Miami AAUP-AFT (FAM) calls on community allies to help share some L.U.V. and support the faculty at Miami University in Ohio by signing this petition. Despite FAM’s certified majority of faculty who filed cards to support union recognition and election, Miami is delaying our vote by attempting to exclude non-tenure-track faculty (including librarians and […]

ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union of part-time faculty workers at The New School, has been on strike since Wednesday, Nov. 16. These workers haven’t had a raise since 2018 and The New School is refusing to offer pay increases that, at a minimum, meet inflation. Friends of The New School are invited to a Town

Decades of attacks have starved the NLRB of the resources it needs. This means that union elections are delayed and bosses can retaliate against workers with impunity at this crucial moment in labor organizing. This could have a direct impact on higher ed organizing.  NLRB workers are asking that unions and other labor-related organizations sign

From our union siblings at United Campus Workers Alabama: At the University of Alabama (and across the country), adjunct faculty worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic, many teaching the same course loads as full-time instructors, but without university-sponsored health insurance. UA graduate workers are also a critical part of the teaching work force and face tremendous

The Adjunct faculty of Rutgers University teach 30% of Rutgers courses. Despite teaching a third of classes, adjunct faculty’s salaries comprise less than 1% of the University’s budget, and these workers are not offered affordable healthcare coverage or job security. They’ve been working without a contact since June, and Rutgers’ top management has stalled negotiations

48,000 Academic Workers at the University of California began striking Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Show your solidarity by contributing to the UC Academic Workers Strike Support and Hardship Fund! This is the official hardship fund of UAW 2865, UAW 5810, and Student Researchers United-UAW. This fund will be used to help Academic Workers who experience hardship as a

United Academics of Philadelphia (AFT Local 9608) is collecting adjunct (part-time faculty) pay information from across the Philadelphia region to help adjuncts easily compare pay rates and ultimately be able to better advocate for sustainable and equitable compensation. Anyone teaching as an Adjunct in the Philadelphia region is welcome to share pay information for this

Housekeepers at UNC are demanding what sounds like the bare minimum: They are asking their fellow workers, students, and allies to sign this petition.