Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at PSC-CUNY: CUNY’s negotiators have made no improvement to their economic offer since March. There can be no business as usual for CUNY management until we get a fair offer. The annual Manhattan hearing is typically attended by Trustees, the chancellery, and college presidents, and other administrators. PSC members have testified before […]

Momodou Taal, a member of UE Local 300-Cornell Graduate Students United, was suspended by Cornell University without due process in retaliation for peaceful protest activities on campus. As a graduate worker, being suspended means that he loses his job, and as an international student, he is facing the threat of deportation. Local 300-CGSU and Cornell

Bennington College United (BCU), the union of staff, faculty and campus safety at Bennington College won recognition of their majority in February of 2024. Seven months later, the Bennington management team has only made proposals on eleven articles (zero economic articles). Sign BCU’s petition calling the management bargaining team to come to the table in

A&S Full Time Lecturers (FTLs), SMFA Professors of the Practice (POPs), & School of Engineering (SOE) Graduate Workers make Tufts students’ learning experience the best that it can be. Sign SEIU Local 509’s petition calling on the Tufts administration to negotiate a fair contract that includes livable wages, transparent responsibilities, and equitable workloads. The working

The nearly 800 Food Service and Building Service Workers, members of SEIU Local 73, at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign are planning to go on strike. These essential workers are the heart of the University. They cook the food for the students living in the dorms. They clean the buildings on campus. They deserve

From Stanford’s Creative Writing Lecturers: On August 21st, Stanford announced that it is terminating all Creative Writing Lecturers, starting in the summer of 2025, and returning the lectureships to a model of unsustainable teaching positions, where lecturers cycle through one-year, term-limited appointments. We call on Stanford to reverse the firing of the Jones Lecturers, to

From our colleagues at Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP): On August 28th, after a year of negotiation, and a 12 hour marathon session, TAUP was ready to sign a Tentative Agreement for the faculty, librarians, and academic advisors at Temple University. Temple’s negotiation team chose to derail all progress made over our insistence on

From our colleagues at Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA-Madison): For the past two decades, the University of Wisconsin System has been under attack: budget cuts combined with increased inflationary pressures have forced our faculty, staff, and students to do much more with much less. In this context many of our locals—including Green Bay, Oshkosh, Whitewater, River

From our colleagues at UC-AFT: Ed Walker, Chair of UCLA’s Sociology department, recently terminated lecturer Beth Ribet’s appointment. Beth Ribet is among a number of UCLA faculty with disabilities who use universal design principles when teaching. Universal design increases accessibility of education for students, particularly those with disabilities. UCLA clearly encourages faculty to use universal

Boston University graduate student workers with BUGWU (Boston University Graduate Workers Union) have been on strike since March 2024. Here are some ways you can support them as the Fall 2024 semester begins: