Solidarity Asks

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:

From our colleagues at Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF-AFT 3544) and UO Student Workers: The University of Oregon terminated the contracts of Mae Bracelin and Mike Urbancic, who were not only employees of the UO, but also the elected presidents of the student (UOSW) and faculty (UAUO) unions, respectively. UO justified their terminations by appealing

From our colleagues at the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA 6186): Dr. Idris Robinson is facing institutional repression for voicing his solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Colleagues are raising funds for his legal fees.Since June, Texas State University has been quietly moving to terminate Dr. Idris Robinson following an online harassment campaign that targeted him for

From our colleagues at PSU-AAUP: Portland State cannot solve an enrollment problem by cutting programs, jobs, and student pathways. Send a message to the Board of Trustees: stop the Article 22 layoffs and program cuts, implement an Academic Stability and Enrollment Recovery Plan, and commit to fighting for funding in the next legislative session. Read

From our colleagues at the Moore Staff Union: Please sign this petition in support of the Moore Staff Union! The full-time and part-time Staff of Moore College of Art & Design are accomplished creative professionals and integral to the arts community of Philadelphia and beyond. They are committed to supporting young artists and Moore faculty,