Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at WAU: Wayne Academic Union (WAU AAUP-AT Local 6075) represents around 1700 faculty and academic staff at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. We’re calling for fair compensation after a decade of wage stagnation, flexible work arrangements for our academic staff, and money for students facing housing instability. We know that we […]

From our colleagues at DePaul: Academic Freedom is under attack at DePaul University! On May 8, 2024 an adjunct instructor at DePaul was fired without notice of a clear appeals process for offering an optional assignment that connected the course content to the atrocities taking place in Gaza. This was not an isolated incident, but

From our colleagues at United Academics of Philly: Hundreds of faculty and staff members have dedicated their careers to supporting the students and mission at University of the Arts and are now left completely unsupported due to the announced closure of the University as of June 7th. That’s just 8 days after the announcement in

From our colleagues at CWA: For years, the workplace rights of nurses, teachers, public safety officers, and other workers performing vital services to benefit the public have been under attack. Anti-worker politicians and their corporate donors have rigged the system to gut workers’ rights and go after health and safety requirements, staffing levels, and more.

Radical Teacher seeks submissions about teaching in and about the protest encampments and other forms of student activism that have emerged during the spring of 2024 across the U.S. and the world. What kinds of teaching and learning are happening in the encampments and elsewhere in this protest movement? What new knowledges, intellectual collaborations, and creative pedagogies are emerging

Over the course of the last year, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education Post-Tenure Ad Hoc Committee has been reviewing tenure and the post-tenure review process at our colleges and universities. They recently prepared a report with findings and recommendations for tenure that could risk the ability of higher education institutions to recruit and retain

From our friends at YDSA in support of UAW 4811: The academic workers of UAW 4811 are going on an unprecedented strike to protect their rights to free speech, protest, and collective action. Members voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a ULP strike over the violation of basic workplace rights like safety. The University of

From our colleagues at USC: We stand with healthcare workers at Keck Medicine of USC  who are fighting for safe staffing levels, fair wages, and the right to inform our community about patient care issues inside Keck-USC hospitals. We trust healthcare workers to care for us and to let us know when patient care is

From NewSWU: “Student workers have authorized a strike, in part, in response to the arrests of several student workers among the 45 students engaged in civil disobedience on Friday, May 3rd. Students were protesting peacefully in support of the demands of the TNS Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which included the demand that TNS stipulate to a fair

From Marc Kagan at PSC-CUNY: For use in discussions at the Professional Staff Congress at City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Delegate Assembly this week: Looking for examples of union statements about campus protests that go beyond condemnation of the suppression of these protests. Please send them to Mark Kagan at marcleeann@gmail.com.